IT Career In Mage Career Terms

Junior dev: "Explode the Sun" (crashes production). Senior dev: "Conjure Shield" (writes defensive code). Principal engineer: "Prevent Sun From Exploding" (spends all day in meetings preventing juniors from nuking prod).

The career trajectory is hilariously accurate. You start with immense destructive power and zero wisdom. Then you learn some protective spells and best practices. Finally, you reach the endgame where you're powerful enough to summon entire architectures... but you're stuck in Jira hell making sure nobody else accidentally drops the production database.

The real kicker? That Great Mage is probably still getting paged at 2 AM because the Apprentice Mage decided to deploy on a Friday.