This pilot fish is the only IT support guy for a 200-employee company, but that’s not as unreasonable as it sounds — the systems are all pretty mature, and include accounting and payroll software that generates all the company’s tax forms.

“The company was then acquired by a much larger firm, whose headquarters and data center were located 1,000 miles away,” says fish. “To satisfy terms of the sale, the larger company had to keep the infrastructure from the smaller company available for seven years.

“To accomplish this, I shipped out servers to the Texas location, and the big company shipped me out there to connect, configure and verify everything was working.”

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