Cream of the Crop IT Job
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
Acoording to my understanding, those who are woking on building the kernal of the operating systems, who deal with complex algorithms, implement functionality in Assembly, C, and C++ language are the most specialized from technical and domain front.
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
michelle123 wrote:
Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized?
Mine. No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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michelle123 wrote:
Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized?
Mine. No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
In IT industry no one is indispensible..
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ChrisElston wrote:
No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
In IT industry no one is indispensible..
Vijay Sringeri wrote:
In IT industry no one is indispensible
ehrrm... not if all you do is churning out poorly designed LOBs by the hour
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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michelle123 wrote:
Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized?
Mine. No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
No-one here understands
No one understands DD where he works either ... but that's probably to do with the pub 'lunch'! :laugh:
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
michelle123 wrote:
that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps
Trust me, it's not a particularly enviable position ...
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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ChrisElston wrote:
No-one here understands
No one understands DD where he works either ... but that's probably to do with the pub 'lunch'! :laugh:
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
DeathByChocolate wrote:
but that's probably to do with the pub 'lunch'! :laugh:
It's great that " Sarcasm " here as well..
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
It's not exactly specialized but people found it hard to say exactly what my ex-wife did. She sold sea shells on the sea shore.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
michelle123 wrote:
it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps
I think it will take years for someone to follow in my footsteps ... what with my small feet, webbed toes and peculiar limp! :rolleyes:
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
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ChrisElston wrote:
No-one here understands what I do, which means I can bluff to anyone but does mean if I have so much as a lunchbreak and something looks like going wrong they all panic and queue up waiting for me to return.
In IT industry no one is indispensible..
Vijay Sringeri wrote:
In IT industry no one is indispensible..
That may go for all the blind men leading other blind men and being led by yet other blind men. Among so many of those the one-eyed is king and automatically moves to the lower ranks of the charts when it comes to being exchangable.
I'm invincible, I can't be vinced
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michelle123 wrote:
it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps
I think it will take years for someone to follow in my footsteps ... what with my small feet, webbed toes and peculiar limp! :rolleyes:
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
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Might be! ;P
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
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It's not exactly specialized but people found it hard to say exactly what my ex-wife did. She sold sea shells on the sea shore.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I knew a girl who had a tattoo of a sea shell on her inner thigh. If you put your ear to it, you could smell the sea.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
I've heard that the people developing the underlying logic in database engines are particularly specialised - proper beardy weirdies!! And Donald Knuth - no one's following him!!
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
Technical writer. I've yet to see one that was worth a damn.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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I knew a girl who had a tattoo of a sea shell on her inner thigh. If you put your ear to it, you could smell the sea.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
That seems a bit fishy to me...
I reject your reality and substitute my own! - Adam Savage, Mythbuster -George W Bush life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. - PJ Plauger
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
You said "IT" rather than "computer science" so that leaves out a whole bunch of specialized fields like crypto and such. In IT I suspect that even the "most" specialized isn't that specialized. As a database and backend guy I think I'm fairly specialized, but certainly not irreplacable.
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
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Hi all, We recently had a debate at work about which IT job is the most specialized... that one position where you are so highly specialized, it will take years for somebody to follow in your footsteps. Which IT job/specialization do you think is THE most specialized? :)
Safety-critical, mission-critical software. Pure and simple. Software in which if there is a single 'bug', it may directly cause the deaths of one or more humans. The absolute pinnacle. And we utterly shun "C" & "C++" with very, very good reason.