I’m 48. I have a list of take away’s from life. Not in any order.
- it is what it is
- you will never earn more than you are worth.
- IT ppl don’t make companies any money and are easy to replace.
- Work to take better of yourself
- You will make mistakes, that’s OK
- Don’t stay (work)at a place that you can’t deal with.
- Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
- Don’t beat yourself up when you make a mistake, or shoot yourself in the foot.
- Always be nice/kind or fight to be, know when you are not.
- Always set expectations
I mean, I’d say that that’s kind of an artificial distinction. IT is a cost center, but that’s true of a lot of things. You could hypothetically look at the entire company as a set of support personnel acting as a cost center whose role is to enable the sales guys do their job. But…it’s gonna be hard for those sales guys to do their job if they lack product to sell, or if they can’t communicate with the people who they sell product to, or if they aren’t getting their paycheck, or if their office doesn’t have electricity or furniture, or if nobody is coordinating all the people who do the above…
I think it’s less of a “what I believe” thing for OP. It’s probably something they’ve heard being told to them as to why their hours or job was cut.
When it works correctly, IT makes it possible to do more with less.
I’ve noticed over the years that IT jobs aren’t the first to disappear when the economy tanks.
There are exceptions, of course. Stupid employers. Ineffective IT people. Sometimes just a shift of focus: if a division goes away, you no longer need the IT staff who supported it
An intelligent employer understands that talented IT people can let them maintain productivity with fewer staff or increase productivity with the same staff.
IT, like say, Maintenance, doesn’t bring in any money, but they sure save a LOT of it.