10) The pay in IT is good as 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 silly errors.

8 )  You will go from goat to hero and back again multiple times within any given day.

7) Certifications won’t always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or pay raise.

6) Your non-technical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their PC’s.

5) Vendors and consultants will take all credit when things work well and will blame you when things go wrong.

4) You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.

3) Novice IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies.

2) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than help the business.

1) IT professionals frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business manager sand hide the fact that they screwed up.