I made it back into IT that spring, and I want to be honest about why I took the job: the pay was better than framing, and I didn't have to stand outside in the cold anymore. That was the whole pitch, as far as I was concerned. The role itself was application administrator — a job I had never done in my life. I'd been a systems admin, a Unix engineer, a presales guy, a consultant. Application admin wasn't on that list. Somebody at that energy company looked at a resume with none of the right...