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The Dirty Jobs of IT
dantwood writes "In an Infoworld article, Dan Tynan writes about the '7 Dirtiest Jobs' in IT. Number three? Enterprise espionage engineer (black ops). 'Seeking slippery individuals comfortable with lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks. Requirements include familiarity with hacking, malware, and forgery; must be able to plausibly impersonate a pest control specialist or a fire marshal. Please submit rap sheet along with resume.'" Paging Mike Rowe, Mike Rowe to the IT desk.
lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks
Sounds like fun.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
When will this be on Dirty Jobs
Hey, last time Mike Rowe was on Slashdot he was getting sued by Microsoft!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/133233&tid=109
Now that's a dirty job.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Oh really, I think corporate spy would be a simple job. Find out what they want you to do, turn in your company/boss, flip them off as the FBI takes them away, collect the reward and get a new job. Sounds awfully simple to me. If anyone ever asked me to pull some illegal bullshit job like that I'd be like "Hmm, yeah can you repeat that and speak closer to my MP3 recorder?"
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Finally some recognition.
Dirty IT job No. 7: Legacy systems archaeologist WANTED: INDIVIDUALS FAMILIAR WITH 3270
Would this then, be a description of Mike Rowe Soft?
Jus' wonderin'...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I'd trust wikipedia with my life.
Slashdot Dupe Checker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circlejerk
Or, how about the guy who publishes user-submitted stories with varying amounts of information on geek websites, adds a misleading headline and sensationalizes the summary, including several misspelled words, and then sits back and waits for all the users to write things like "Fr1st Ps0t", "In Soviet Russia...", "I for one welcome..." and goatse.cx links, all in a desparate attempt to increase subscribers and ad revenue?
I, for one, welcome our new dirty, spelling-challenged, sensationalizing user-submitted story-posting editor overlords!
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Steve Jobs?
1) Dreamweaver webmaster
2) Keyboard cleaner (cheetos and pepsi and genetic splatter, oh my!)
3) Floating point wrangler
4) Monochrome wire detangler
5) Witnessing <body bgcolor="#FFFF00">
6) rpm dependency arbitrator
7) "Cowboy Neal option" writer
UTF-8: There and Back Again
All redundant, Windows admins are already covered by "onsite reboot specialist".
...but I've had 5 of these jobs in my career.
/.'s will get the incredible irony of that.
No, I haven't had #1, but the wet end of a paper making machine is very close. It's amazing what will grow in warm pulp, if you leave it there a while. And how your shoes literally fall apart when you walk through the stuff they use to clean it off. Literally. In minutes. Leather is no match for DuStrip.
Cat Herder is the worst of them. Being a rebootnik isn't quite as much fun as a third-party field tech, driving back and forto from the airport 3 miles away in a driving snowstorm to get *another* part to make that ^&*) Alpha server run again, so people can rent porn. Yeah.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
The lab tech at the police officer that gets to deal with computer crimes. Yeah, once the police knock down the door to the house of someone collecting child porn, he's the guy that has to touch the keyboard...
Weird, that's not what your wikipedia page says...
I should've read into the "of IT" more. Really, I was thinking someone had a dirtier job than I did repairing cables crawling through the mud under a building, working 40 hours a week in an office that flooded with every rain storm (the water carried beach sand, I was working at a resort), the cables the guys I replaced ran through a cesspool yard... if you're thinking nothing is worse than that, you're right. Sadly, this article raised my hopes that I didn't have it so bad... then crushed them.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
The Dirty Jobs of IT
Is that you, Steve?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.