She’d not last a week in an IT job. IT is basically 24/7 - the more crucial your job is, the more this is true. When shit breaks - which it always does - who ya gonna call? That would be YOU at 2 AM. And you’re on it until it’s fixed.
No kidding. 44 years building software. Recently, I'm stuck configuring other people's software into kubernetes clusters. Very frustrating as I have no control over the actual code. It's intricate creation of configuration and getting "pods" to coordinate. I miss the simplicity of writing kernel device drivers or digital signal processing where I have full control of the code.
This week it is keycloak. I have a CAC card authenticator that needs to be followed with a government consent page before completing the login process. It is just obtuse. Inserting the consent page is dirt simple after username/password. Not so with CAC/x509.
Isn’t that the truth!
I have reached the point where I am on call 24x7, but I only get called if all the young-uns can’t figure out a fix! (I am the old guy now)
I worked clinically in Nuclear Medicine for about ten years, and got to the point just hearing the beep of a pager on television or a radio commercial made me literally twitch and cringe.
When I got paged for that, I had to go in...usually it would be three to four hours minimum until I was back home...sometimes I would get paged twice in a night, and still had to be at work at 6 AM the next day, even if I had no sleep!
I feel bad for this girl, not because I feel sympathy, but...she is going to have a tough life, and nobody has attempted to prepare her for it.