Re: [Nolug] OT: Funny: Spot the IT guy

From: Jonathan Roberts <gremln007_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:01:14 -0500
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jeremy (mailing list account) <
listbox@unix-boy.com> wrote:

> On 9/19/2010 10:48 AM, Charles Jouglard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:55:20 -0500, Mischa D. Krilov wrote:
>> Spot the IT guy:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/bsqXSJ
>>
>> I'm thinking BSD here.
>>
>> Mischa
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>> I would say they all are the IT guy. In my experience they would all know
>> better then the IT guy anyway...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Charles
>>
>>
> Reminds me of a conversation I had with an acquaintance I knew from high
> school that is currently in law school. During the conversation regarding
> some facet of law she chastised me for having an opinion on it because I
> wasn't law school educated. Her words were something along the lines of not
> practicing law without a law degree. I bit my tongue but was tempted to
> tell her that I'd stop, in her words, "practicing law" when her law school
> buddies and the lawyers of the world would quit trying to do my then job as
> an IT guy.
>
> Maybe it is just me, but there tends to be this I have a JD or MD so I can
> do your job as an IT guy attitude out there. They think it can't be that
> hard because being an IT guy doesn't require letters after your name and
> having to spend 10s of thousands of dollars on a post-graduate, masters
> level degree. It isn't all JDs and MDs, but it is enough to cause headaches
> and keep IT folks employed cleaning up messes.
>
>
> J
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Maybe you should start putting Esquire behind your name. That would confuse
the lawyers.

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