10 secrets you should know about being in IT...

10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you...

9.) It will be your fault when users make mistakes...

8.) You will go from hero to zero multiple times within any given day...

7.) Certifications won't always help you become a better IT person, but they can help you land better pay...

6.) Your nontechnical co-workers, friends and family will use you as their own personal technical support pee-on for their home and business systems...

5.) Most vendors will take all the credit when things work well and then blame you when things screw up...

4.) You'll spend far more time babysitting old technologies (can you say XP) than implementing new ones (can you say Linux)...

3.) Veteran IT (Old Warhorse) professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies (can you say XP again)...

2.) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than to help the business (not me)...

1.) IT frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business people to hide the fact that they screwed up (can you say not me again)...