Jeremy Tan wrote:
Greetings,
Christopher, i know you love the 2nd one in the 1st list. Medical is your fav course, huh!!
Jeremy
Thanks; it is, yes. Yet that poll seems to just confirm what most everybody thinks are stressful specialties; which makes me wonder why they had to do the poll.
I can't imagine anybody shooting their Thinkpads. Dells, on the other hand, yes....
Just think, though, of what IT has to go through; when the network goes down, that is just like a stroke in brain or a critical system failure in engineering. Both of which are time sensitive and have very large negative impacts for a very tiny initial cause. This makes the costs of prevention and immediate response sky-rocket...along with the blood pressures of those who have to deal with it. Of course, in Engineering, you generally have access to the proper quality of materials and equipment (procurement notwithstanding
); in IT, this isn't always the case. You have to deal with a highly heterogenous base of users, the quality of which is rarely ever uniform or very high, tinkering (sometimes, it is called "work" but I think these can safely be considered synonyms in this case
) on the network, which may not be too stable to begin with due to old hardware and/or dusty desk software.
That is akin to getting a barrel of monkeys on crack, shrinking them down, and letting them loose inside a human brain with knives or going on a aircraft/ship and dumping a bucket of ball bearings into the powerplant(s) and waiting to see what happens. Doesn't seem fair does it? Entropy will always increase, but you can at least win a few battles here and there with energy, hard work, and persevearnce.
& cockatoos
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