I miss the mainframe and thin clients. I really do. I miss when IT workers were white collar workers, not the now-expected know everything from cabling to programming crap that has become the hallmark of current HR demands. It&#x27;s one thing to be well rounded, but very, very few people know all of the &quot;skills&quot; expected these days. I know of very, very few people who are both competent systems administrators and yet stellar programmers.<p>I know my opinion on the above is largely in the minority of IT pros, but I really disdain how IT is shaping up. Nothing seems concrete like it used to. It&#x27;s difficult to put what I mean into mere words, but those who have been in this industry across three decades like I have will understand, even if they don&#x27;t necessarily agree. I miss when IT was &quot;magic&quot; to most people. I miss feeling like I was accomplishing something rather than putting out fires because the pointy heads are making yet another useless change because they saw it at some C-title conference. I miss the absolute rock-solid performance of mainframes. I miss being able to deploy a new diskless client in 30 seconds with NFS running on a Solaris E10K. I miss running FreeBSD on Netra 1Us that never went down. I miss never having to be around a Windows environment. IT is a mess. I loathe BYOD, BYOT. Just my opinion. Not bitter, just worried a bit.