Learning to forgive yourself, downtime and the IT professional

Learning to forgive yourself, downtime and the IT professional

I have seen so many IT professional who tear themselves apart trying to keep their teams services up even in the absence of SLAs or, in many cases, even in the absence of users. From struggling to restart beta server in test environments on Friday nights to pressing to get pages updated and revised which have never had any views at the cost of major site update, IT people pressure themselves to the point of break down.

I think break down from self inflicted pressure is probably the largest long term threat to a IT career or team. So all I have to say is if you had to be flawless to make it in IT why is Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and even Facebook on the top?