Why treating every tech role the same stalls growth and invites risk From the outside, “IT” looks tidy: flip the switch, keep the lights on, chase down a mystery error before lunch, go home. Inside that single label, though, lives a sprawling city of specialties, each with its own streets, jargon, and stress levels. Pretend it’s one bucket for long enough and cracks start to show. Meet the Districts System Administrators They patch the servers, test the backups, and chase off the “worked-yesterday” gremlins before anyone else notices a problem. Software Developers Front-end, back-end, DevOps, QA—together they turn ideas into