Dirty IT job No. 4: Zombie console monkey
Wanted: Individuals with low self-esteem and high boredom threshold willing to spend long hours poring over server logs and watching blinking lights on a network console.
This job title combines two of the most onerous yet often necessary tasks ever assigned to an IT grunt: analyzing system logs and monitoring network operations, says Lawrence Imeish, a principal consultant for IT services provider Dimension Data.
The dirtiest IT jobs
Posted on Saturday, April 11 2009 @ 9:45 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Following last year's list of the 7 dirtiest jobs in the IT industry, InfoWorld has published a followup with even dirtier IT jobs. You can check it out over here, below is a small snip: