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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Kinda tired of people referring to my work as "IT"

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Still no.

I'm not setting up routers or configuring laptops.

I'm designing and building systems.

"IT" being used this way just means "touch computer."

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago

So you work with information technology? ๐Ÿ˜‰

[-] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Agreed, anyone that falls below the CIO gets called IT.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What about the CTO?

[-] socsa@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think this is a European thing. "IT" is a general term for any tech work, whereas in the US that term refers to technician level network infrastructure and sysadmin work.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No, people misuse the term in the US, too.

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is not a "misuse", IT stands for Information Technology and is a broad term for everything. I work in IT security without being helpdesk.

Computer science is a mid term though, it's about more than computers ;)

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] wer2@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Feral Developer Level 3

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Since I'm an engineer and I engineer things, maybe "engineering."

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And I get to toot the whistle

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