RE: Computer Science and Information Technology
July 9, 2012 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2012 at 12:11 pm by Autumnlicious.)
IT is basically internet electrician/plumber.
You get to construct a beautiful layout (network) only to have shit flushed through it repeatedly until it clogs. Then it's your job to fix it.
Would you like fries with that?
I couldn't think of a more opportunity-limited tech job, except high tech janitor or something.
Branching out to software and hardware engineering allow you to escape that box while still being able to interact with it. All my coworkers are capable of researching and setting up basic networks; I'm one of the few who actually knows how to make special case networks that work.
IT is like a special use case of engineering. However, many IT techs couldn't tell you, if say there was a badly written device driver interacting with the kernel. A software engineer who has to make the product function will eventually figure that out and have to work around it.
The most you'd reasonably expect from IT is "buy another box".
You get to construct a beautiful layout (network) only to have shit flushed through it repeatedly until it clogs. Then it's your job to fix it.
Would you like fries with that?
I couldn't think of a more opportunity-limited tech job, except high tech janitor or something.
Branching out to software and hardware engineering allow you to escape that box while still being able to interact with it. All my coworkers are capable of researching and setting up basic networks; I'm one of the few who actually knows how to make special case networks that work.
IT is like a special use case of engineering. However, many IT techs couldn't tell you, if say there was a badly written device driver interacting with the kernel. A software engineer who has to make the product function will eventually figure that out and have to work around it.
The most you'd reasonably expect from IT is "buy another box".
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