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Are IT Workers the Coal Miners of the 21st Century?

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– October 20, 2011Posted in: Article, Opinion, Submitted

coalminer3A few weeks back, I introduced you to my friend Shawn.  He’s a strong systems thinker, a former soldier, someone I respect and admired from my youth.

Shawn cut his teeth in the dotCom era, becoming a programmer, then general technologist, then IT manager, now … I’m not sure.  Last time I checked, he was an account rep for an IT managed services firm, the kind that has beeneating a hole in traditional IT departments.

Shawn cares about his field, and his perspective is shared by life in the trenches.  So when he kept writing about what he sees happening to our field, and asked me to publish it, I couldn’t say no.

Here’s the question that keeps Shawn up at night:  Are IT Workers the Coal Miners of the 21st Century?

From here on out the words belong to Shawn, not me.

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