Work and family are quite different for me in this regard!
With the relatives, I’m the IT guy of course. But I haven’t had to do much for others lately since everybody just stares at their phone. In MY house there’s a ton of shit that needs tech support, lol.
At work, sure I’m a software engineer and I might tell a random person I work in tech, but I am not IT. I am an embedded systems developer using my company-owned computer to try to develop a product that will be useful to some people. IT is the sworn enemy!
(to be fair, my employer’s IT is actually cool, and we can install our own OS and use M365 stuff in a browser – they just don’t have the resources to actually help us with anything)
Work and family are quite different for me in this regard!
With the relatives, I’m the IT guy of course. But I haven’t had to do much for others lately since everybody just stares at their phone. In MY house there’s a ton of shit that needs tech support, lol.
At work, sure I’m a software engineer and I might tell a random person I work in tech, but I am not IT. I am an embedded systems developer using my company-owned computer to try to develop a product that will be useful to some people. IT is the sworn enemy!
(to be fair, my employer’s IT is actually cool, and we can install our own OS and use M365 stuff in a browser – they just don’t have the resources to actually help us with anything)