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7 'Dirtiest' Computer Jobs, According to InfoWorld

by Lee Bains on April 8, 2009 at 01:40 PM


While we've frequently heard the word "dirty" associated with technology, we're struggling to think of an instance when the word was meant literally. Leave it to InfoWorld, though, to compile a list of "Even dirtier IT jobs," a follow up to last year's "The 7 dirtiest jobs in IT." (IT, of course, standing for Information Technology, which is another way of saying the person who manages computer systems, or does computer work of some kind, either at your office or somewhere else.)

According to InfoWorld, the average day in the life of a "disconnect/reconnect specialist," a "zombie console monkey," or an "IT mortician" is no cakewalk, and we tend to agree. We've all done our fair share of "data entry," and, really, at the end of the day, it about feels equivalent to having a frontal lobotomy. From crawling into the dust bunny-ridden underbellies of desks, to blankly staring at server logs, IT guys and gals can certainly have some pretty crummy jobs.

Still, that being said, we don't really see how these jobs are dirty (leaving a possible exception for the aforementioned dust bunny-wranglers). After all, we're still, a year later, prying caked pieces of red mud up off our floorboards and driver's seat from that last construction job we worked. These days, the dirtiest our computer jobs get is when, while frantically typing, we spill coffee down our shirts. [From: InfoWorld]

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