Thursday, June 13, 2013

The price of working in IT

Jobs in the Information Technology industry is one of the relatively high paying jobs because of the supposed specialized technological skill you need to possess. 
But you know what, I think people in IT is paid much not really just because of the technological skill but more of the stress that you get in working in this industry. It's been 11 years now (wow! it's been that long now?!?) that I've been in IT and my gosh, the stress is consistent. You really need to have a way to motivate and recharge yourself to keep from burning out. Really. 

On the side note, it is quite an irony that you're supposed to work with the assumption that everyone in the IT department were hired because of their technological knowledge in their field and yet oftentimes you still get asked to give instructions in a for dummies detail. Duh. 

2 comments:

aoi soba said...

true lola, ang binabayad talaga is for stress...kasama sa job description natin ay to resolve...so pag solution maker ka kasama yung stress lalo na kung ookrayin ka pag nag escalate ka ng issue :P
naka-oncall galore ka pa rin ba?

Coffee Fairy v1 said...

Yuf on call for a month pero nakarotation sa buong team.