It’s tough to keep up on current politics, the economic meltdown and the world’s affair when you are the go-to-guy of your organization. Even as small as it might be the mountainous pile of work waiting to be completed soars higher each day without the feeling of accomplishment. It’s hard to pay attention to the rest of the non IT world when your window faces a barren hallway and you have trouble thinking straight without the droning of servers and other networking equipment that somehow eases your nerves. In a position as being the one man show your work can so easily consume your life, the things in life you used to enjoy are just not what they used to be. The solo IT ninja burns most of their waking hours fixing issues, streamlining processes and just making the IT world better behind the scenes unbeknownst to the end users. With the fury of work that we complete in one day, most people’s heads would spin. The results of this madness has turned what used to be a perfectly good gamer into someone that doesn’t know what to do with themselves when not at work. Sometimes a blank stare into that brand new computer that you worked so hard to get looking for a game to play returns an un-natural behavior of initiating a VPN and remotely connecting back into work as if you have been reprogrammed by your company’s workstation beckoning you to finish just one more project. We are the fools that Mr. T has pity for, because at 5PM when the office becomes a ghost town and tumbleweeds kick through the halls, there we stand with our jump drives and know how ready to work without interruption. In some way shape or form we are the ones in the trenches, the unsung hero’s making the work place run without ever missing a beat. We are the superstars of our own small networks that can make or break our companies business. So have no fear small company Network Champion there are a few of us that do make a difference, even if we are the only ones that see it. The laundry list of tasks and work goes on and on of what folks like us achieve day in and day out, unfortunately that’s the easiest part of our lives. The hardest part is being able to log off at the end of the day and get back to living, without a remote connection.
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