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 IT Support Better than Being a Pastor?

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PostSubject: IT Support Better than Being a Pastor?   IT Support Better than Being a Pastor? I_icon_minitimeTue Aug 24, 2010 3:46 pm

This one is a little long, but I thought some of it was pretty funny. I figured since we have at least one (or two) here who do (or have done) IT support, and at least two pastors, I think a few might get a chuckle out of this.
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26 Ways in Which Doing IT Support is Better than Being a Pastor
1. People come to you for help — instead of assuming that, if you really knew your job, you would intuitively know they needed help, and come to them without being asked.
2. Everyone immediately tells you, to the best of his ability, what his or her actual issue is.
3. Everyone who asks you a question really wants to hear the answer.
4. Everyone who asks you for help really wants to he helped.
5. Everyone who calls you really does want his/her computer to work the very best it can.
6. You and your callers agree that computer bugs and problems are bad, and should be done away with.
7. When you identify viruses, spyware, unwanted popups, and crashes as "bad," and target them for elimination, the folks you help don't accuse you of being harsh and judgmental.
8. Nobody who calls you is actually in love with the computer problems and misbehaviors they're experiencing.
9. When you identify a computer malady you want to eradicate, nobody can wave a book or point to a Big Name who argues that it is actually the latest, greatest "thing" in computers, and should be earnestly sought after, cherished, cultivated, and spread abroad.
10. Nobody who calls you for help thinks that he's hearing a little voice in his heart telling him that what you're saying is just so much smelly cheese.
11. Everyone to whom you give sensible counsel will hear, heed, remember, and follow that counsel — they won't insist on "feeling an inner peace" before doing it.
12. Everyone thinks you do crucial, important, and respectable work; nobody assumes that it is because you can't get a "real job."
13. Everyone assumes you’re well-trained, know what you’re doing, and know at least some things they do not already know.
14. While you are expected to be knowledgeable and competent at what you do, you are not expected to be perfect.
15. Most times, you know immediately when you’ve helped someone; you don’t have to wait six months, six years, or six decades, to see whether your fix has “taken” or not.
16. On the worst day, if you do even a half-decent job, you can go home knowing for certain that you’ve really helped 5, 10, 15, 20 or more people.
17. If you don’t know the answer, it’s probably on Google. Somewhere.
18. When you discover a new, better, more effective way to accomplish the goals you share with the folks you help, they're happy — not angry at you because it's different from "the way we've always done it."
19. The people you help don’t care how you’re dressed.
20. The people you help don’t care how many committees your wife does or doesn’t head up.
21. The people you help don’t hold your children to standards their children couldn’t even spell.
22. The people you help don’t periodically form secret committees and whisper-campaigns to get you ousted.
23. The people you help don’t all assume they know how to do your job better than you do, while actually knowing next to nothing about it.
24. Everyone is fairly clear on what your job actually is: fix their computer so they can get back to work, or work better.
25. The people you help evaluate you by whether you do or do not do your actual and well-defined job effectively — not by how you "make" them "feel."
26. The people you help aren't judging you as inferior to a beloved support technician who died ten (or a hundred) years ago.

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PostSubject: Re: IT Support Better than Being a Pastor?   IT Support Better than Being a Pastor? I_icon_minitimeWed Aug 25, 2010 7:30 am

I should probably find that hilarious, but it's just too truthful and too close to home to be funny.

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PostSubject: Re: IT Support Better than Being a Pastor?   IT Support Better than Being a Pastor? I_icon_minitimeWed Aug 25, 2010 3:18 pm

It's almost like one of those passive-aggresive jokes.

The pastor's get to nod their heads, the IT guys get to laugh, and hopefully some of the pastor's congregation will feel just a little convicted by it (but probably not).

I think it just goes to show that we all need to pray for our pastors. They have a very difficult job with a lot of responsibility.

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