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This is vastly underestimated. The difference between coding and managing coding.



Working with IT isn't even managing coding. Management implies power to hold someone accountable, while working with IT an extended exercise in nagging and supplicating an organization which is completely unresponsive and unaccountable in its outcomes and methods.

You might as well become an immigration lawyer and spend all day begging the government to explain why your latest M-10582-9DJVA-V isn't being processed in the normal time frame, even though it was stamped in triplicate and sent by Certified Mail with a full-color copy of every identification document you own.

The best way to deal with IT is to avoid depending on it ever in the slightest way. If you give it an inch, it will take a mile.




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