System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality

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System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality

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Oh. My. God. The TRAGIC reality of system admin life laid bare! 💀

Friends think we're gaming nerds, Mom's CONVINCED we're tech billionaires, and society pictures us as awkward IT guys with headsets. Meanwhile, the boss imagines us napping on keyboards!

We picture ourselves as Matrix-level digital gods, but the DEVASTATING truth? We're just clicking "restart" on Windows error messages and praying to the server gods that nothing explodes today. The glamour! The prestige! The CTRL+ALT+DELUSION!

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