"If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of additional dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well.
10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you
9.) It will be your fault when users make silly errors
8.) You will go from goat to hero and back again multiple times within any given day
7.) Certifications won’t always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or a pay raise
6.) Your nontechnical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs
5.) Vendors and consultants will take all the credit when things work well and will blame you when things go wrong
4.) You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones
3.) Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies
2.) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than to help the business
And finally…
1.) IT pros frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business managers and hide the fact that they screwed up
Re: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
nope koi faida nahin hota …
not atleast in pakistan …
or to be specific … not atleast in a place where i work …
the only benefit is … NO LATE SITTINGS FOR GALZ
Re: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
Why would being a girl make any difference? The only thing I can think of being a disadvantage is carrying heavy equipment around. Thank God the gigantic monitors from yester-year are history now. There's still servers and server rack UPS's there.
Cadet, what were you trying to say? I didn't understand.
Re: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
Cadet- Well, I won’t be working in Pakistan, so good for me..
Tofibaba- Carrying around the heavy equipment is the kind of thing I am talking about. I haven’t had more than 2 girls in any of my networking courses, and supposedly it’s a man’s field (or so I have been told, and I disagree). I was just wondering if there are ANY advantages for a girl, because I realize that there are many disadvantages. I guess not..
The number 1 is so true, in fact all of them are.