📜 The Price of Gaining Respect in the IT World
By Jet Mariano
Respect in IT isn’t handed out with certifications, job titles, or seniority. It’s earned — quietly, repeatedly — through solutions delivered under pressure, systems recovered when no one else could, and long hours spent automating what others assumed had to be manual.
I’ve restored failed VMs when the backups looked hopeless.
I’ve rebalanced VMware clusters to keep production workloads running efficiently.
I’ve automated daily cloud operations across Azure — from onboarding to Defender alert responses — reducing hours of repetitive tasks into seconds of silent execution.
In one instance, proactive Azure Defender tuning flagged behavior that could have led to a ransomware attack. No one ever knew how close it came — and that’s the point. The better your work, the less noise it makes.
I’ve diagnosed why provision-on-demand failed in a live CTS environment, traced financial VM crashes back to Veeam I/O timing conflicts, and implemented site-to-site VPN connections that quietly brought entire departments online again.
No one claps for any of it.
No one sees the nights spent scripting, or the documentation created while others sleep.
But that’s where respect lives in IT —
Not in applause, but in quiet confidence.
Not in recognition, but in results.
You don’t demand respect in this field.
You build it.
One restored environment at a time.
One secure connection at a time.
One automated fix before someone even files the ticket.
🔥 Final Thought:
If you’re still working toward that respect —
Don’t force it.
Deliver, document, and repeat.
Sooner or later, your work will do all the talking.
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