National IT Professionals Day 2022
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Plan B became computers. I suppose things worked out satisfactorily because I am comfortable in my old age and meet all my bills in retirement.
I have always been treated as a 'strange' human being in the work place.
The only reason they kept me around was to exploit my skill set which remains formidable here in my autumn years.
The ability to sit at a machine and handle any contingency has served me well over the years.
Today is National IT Professionals Day. It goes down on the third Tuesday of every September &mdash making it September 21 this year.
It is said to be a day to recognize the technical experts — network engineers, system administrators, analysts, database admins, programmers, scripting developers and all the other types of IT professionals those who provide that support required to maintain and operate a network properly.
I may be a geek but I don't really put much emphasis on National IT Professionals Day.
The field is over run with advanced degrees who cannot do anything. The stupid HR people who think the "qualified" have degrees are the problem. HR people are stupid so they are bound to hire the least suitable individuals to fill a position. The stupidest HR people populate two law firms on main street in Columbia, SC.
So I was an IT professional. I still have moments when my career lingers and hangs over me like a dark cloud. However, I can still do it. Hardware, software, media ... it's all in a days work. I haven't needed any support since 1973 but I haven't really loved my career at all — from then until now. When I started out there were no computer and networking training programs in my field.
It didn't faze me either.