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| I think you are facing another issue - the client is beginning to understand that IT guys tend to just offer commodity skills - there is added value in when they do what they are told to do but they need to be told, i.e. their being what used to be understood as a knowledge worker is being called into question - especially given the client abuses of the dot com era.
Furthermore there is, in IT, little you can get better with, there hasn't been a decent advancement in the science for twenty odd years - the only thing one can do to improve ones skill-set is improve ones industry know-how. Unfortunately very few IT guys understand this and end up hitting 40 wondering why they are bored witless and then go off to start organic watercress farms .. | |
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I have to say I am quite taken aback by this response, I think its one of the most offensive posting's I've come across in all my time here. Do you work in IT ? And if so, for how long have you worked in it ?
It has been my career now for closing in on 20 years and to describe me as a man who has "commodity skills" and "needs to be told what to do" is both wrong and pretty insulting I must say. Can I ask what you do please ?
In the past 20 years, as I am sure you know as you are so knowledgeable about it, IT has changed immeasurably and in that time we have adapted to a consistently mutating business environment. It is the rather simple attitudes such as yours that are often the most frustrating to deal with, where a clear misunderstanding of the value of IT to the business is most seen.