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The Dirty Jobs of IT

Posted by Zonk on from the we-care-a-lot dept.

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.

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  1. Uhm... by OpenSourced · · Score: 4, Funny

    lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks

    Sounds like fun.

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    1. Re:Uhm... by sapphire+wyvern · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know, running a penetration testing firm sounds like an excellent cover for black-hat hackers.

      Nothing gives you plausible deniability for your data heists like being paid to try stealing it in the first place...

  2. Finally by redeye01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally some recognition.
    Dirty IT job No. 7: Legacy systems archaeologist WANTED: INDIVIDUALS FAMILIAR WITH 3270

  3. Mike Rowe? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would this then, be a description of Mike Rowe Soft?

    Jus' wonderin'...

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  4. #0 dirtiest IT job by freelunch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot Dupe Checker.

    1. Re:#0 dirtiest IT job by halcyon1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just a note for job-seekers: the above position is yet to be filled. Please drop off resumes at /dev/null.

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  5. Re:Again with the Wikipedia!! by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circlejerk

  6. Re:What about the guy by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. The real list by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  8. I really didn't think I was special... by rickb928 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but I've had 5 of these jobs in my career.

    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. /.'s will get the incredible irony of that.

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  9. Forensics Responder by Rurik · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

  10. Re:Again with the Wikipedia!! by teh+moges · · Score: 4, Funny

    Weird, that's not what your wikipedia page says...

  11. Who are they talking about? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Dirty Jobs of IT

    Is that you, Steve?

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