This IT pilot fish has spent much of his career working on aerospace-related projects — and that can create a particularly hard-to-change mindset.

“I worked with one real @#$%!-buster at one company,” fish says. “He was the kind of guy who gave dirty looks if you left before 5:30 p.m. even if you were there at 7:30 a.m. and worked through lunch.

“He definitely had the ‘whatever it takes’ mindset no matter what the impact to the staff — projects were measured in terms of heart attacks and kids-in-rehab. In a way, that made sense when developers were worried about the Russians getting to space or to the moon first. But once the Cold War was over, the old habits remained.

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