10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

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Editor’s note: This article was first published in August 2007. It has now been updated and we’ve added a slideshow for those who prefer the visuals.



If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well.



You can also view this list as a slideshow.

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13416_11-490857.html

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