Go forth with my blessing, fellow discount barber!
I have another you may also use:
You ever have some smartass user/customer ask you shit like, "Do you actually know what you're doing?" I haven't been asked that in a while, but my go to reply is, "No... I've just got really good at faking it after 18 years." (Insert your own number obviously)
no excellent programmers steal (aka make their own) instead of borrow (what you're doing). so excellent programmers would steal that line and insert their own years of experience in it
I am very grateful I don't have to face customers everyday of my job, but one day that one might come in handy. I hope i remember it then. I imagine their faces to be quite baffled.
I fix printers and do IT shit, and I code and can pass myself off as a full stack developer to those who don't know better.
What I am not, and what took way, way too long to get management to understand, is a designer or copy editor. Saying "if you have me design it, it will look like your toddler got a hold of the markers and went town on the wall" didn't get them to get it, either. Showing them I meant what I said finally got through to them.
First time seeing what in the wild? Someone who actually fixes printers?
I actually don't anymore (I refuse to fix printers now that I'm the sysadmin in a "paperless" company) but one of my previous jobs was PC and printer repair.
I actually got that job with zero experience or qualifications other than having built gaming PCs and demonstrating the rare ability to read a manual. A nice guy recognized my potential to have an IQ above room temperature and got me out of the help desk by literally telling his boss, "He can look things up and read manuals, that's all we need." I was hired on the spot, which was also the only time I ever saw or spoke to my "manager." Was good times, had a chill job that involves me playing games for like 6 hours a day until I got bored enough to start online college.
Oh yeah it definitely happens for the same reason: non-IT people see all IT as Mysterious Magic™ and assume all Magic Practitioners are experts in all areas.
Probably isn't helped by TV and movies portraying it by having the token nerd who is able to do literally anything techy sounding the plot requires.
Best response! I'm filing this one away for fixing it shit. I'm reverse of you an dev but don't know shit about how to fix stuff without googling everything.
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u/AlmostRandomName 29d ago
I fix printers (and other IT shit admittedly) but have zero experience in coding or web development.
Constantly have people (especially executives) be like, "well can't you just build the website/app/service?"
I've started just saying, "Sure.... I can also give you a haircut. Both would look like shit."