IT is the most thankless job

[Jason Voorhees]

In IT you're invisible until something goes wrong. You spend your days preventing deadlocks, patching systems, automating the chaos, and keeping the entire company afloat but nobody notices or cares. The moment something slows down or an email bounces, you're the first one blamed even if it's a user or someone higher ups fault. All those hours of proactive work? Forgotten

The money is usually good that's the golden handcuff keeping most people here. Six figures for most roles, bonuses, stock options. High salaries in tech roles like sysadmin, devops but job satisfaction is nowhere to be found. The work can be isolating. When I worked in an office days would go bh without speaking to anyone with endless deadlines and little recognition.


There's a reason why so many ITcels dream of quitting their jobs. If you remove the monetary gain I bet you tomorrow that half of these employees working in these MNCs will quit.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@User28823 @Swarthy Knight @

 

[optimisticzoomer]

Binman is

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Binman is

Atleast to become a binman you don't have to study for 4 years in debt, slaving away everyday infront of a computer and get rejected a 100 times

 

[sub5mumbaifinalboss]

atleast you have money

 

[Jason Voorhees]

atleast you have money

That's the only consolation for most of us tbh. That is what I tell myself too.

 

[sub5mumbaifinalboss]

That's the only consolation for most of us tbh. That is what I tell myself too.

almost 80k post

 

[SplashJuice]

Hot take but Medicine is the shinier golden handcuffs than Tech.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

almost 80k post

Indeed

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Hot take but Medicine is the shinier golden handcuffs than Tech.

Disagree. Doctors get lots of respect, privileges, recession proof etc

 

[FaceandBBC]

I wouldn't mind being invisible as long as I'm getting the work done, getting paid, and going on about my day. I'm not trying to be buddy buddy with co workers.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I wouldn't mind being invisible as long as I'm getting the work done, getting paid, and going on about my day. I'm not trying to be buddy buddy with co workers.

Become a dev then. 0 social interaction. Just do your work and fuck off no need to talk to single soul besides your manager on a few days

 

[Swarthy Knight]

I wouldn't mind being invisible as long as I'm getting the work done, getting paid, and going on about my day. I'm not trying to be buddy buddy with co workers.

This. I feel that Jason hasn't tried enough fast food and retail type jobs to see what the alternatives are for average normie

 

[SplashJuice]

Disagree. Doctors get lots of respect, privileges, recession proof etc

it depends what you value imo. For doctors you have to study years before you earn a decent living like in your 30s. At least I can become some goose farmer in my 40s if I want (I don't care what society thinks) but a doctor will be pressured to be slaving for life because of expectations from the rest of society but many value the expectations and respect over autonomy, depends what ur value system is.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@EthiopianMaxxer

 

[urban legend]

In IT you're invisible until something goes wrong. You spend your days preventing deadlocks, patching systems, automating the chaos, and keeping the entire company afloat but nobody notices or cares. The moment something slows down or an email bounces, you're the first one blamed even if it's a user or someone higher ups fault. All those hours of proactive work? Forgotten

The money is usually good that's the golden handcuff keeping most people here. Six figures for most roles, bonuses, stock options. High salaries in tech roles like sysadmin, devops but job satisfaction is nowhere to be found. The work can be isolating. When I worked in an office days would go bh without speaking to anyone with endless deadlines and little recognition.


There's a reason why so many ITcels dream of quitting their jobs. If you remove the monetary gain I bet you tomorrow that half of these employees working in these MNCs will quit.

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Can I make you a Q&A? I beleive you deserve it.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Can I make you a Q&A? I beleive you deserve it.

Sure man. I'm free the entire day

 

[urban legend]

Sure man. I'm free the entire day

I made one for face and bbc and klip11 rn, I’ll squeeze you into the list before Clavicular In a bit

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I made one for face and bbc and klip11 rn, I’ll squeeze you into the list before Clavicular In a bit

Make them before the end of the day if possible

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Nexom

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@mcmentalonthemic

 

[ltn_looksminner]

why would you be thanked for doing your job though idk man

 

[Nexom]

@Nexom​

IT is the most thankless job

That's one hell of a good title, haven't thought about this before

The work can be isolating.

I fully agree with this...

In IT you're invisible until something goes wrong. You spend your days preventing deadlocks, patching systems, automating the chaos, and keeping the entire company afloat but nobody notices or cares. The moment something slows down or an email bounces, you're the first one blamed even if it's a user or someone higher ups fault. All those hours of proactive work? Forgotten

I've seen that dynamic in a lot of IT environments but... this hasn't been my experience or one of my close friends' experience either though. My friend might be the odd one. He works fully remote, maybe two days a week compared to his colleagues which put a lot of work in, but he's a bit autistic and gets shit done better and faster than everyone else. He knows what to do in order to please the higher ups and made a habit out of it. He's not in a very high position but he somehow managed to get enough trust and authority to be THE ONE to blame others (in a subtle way ) instead of getting blamed for anything. He makes sure he's never the bottleneck in any scenario, that's how he manages to do this mostly. Also noticed in some work environments you can create shit like alliances, groups, etc. where you share memes, get more personal with your colleagues, but not always... I think it highly depends on who you work for, etc. That being said, I agree IT can be thankless in some scenarios but the culture of the company and the leadership can easily change everything.

 

[Sprinkles]

I want to be a truck driver