The Luck of the Tech Pro

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so dust off your “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” shirt and celebrate! Before heading out to show off your Irish stepdancing skills, tell us about your luckiest moments as a tech pro—because leprechauns aren’t the only ones who can find a pot of gold on the other side of the rainbow.

We want to know when you’ve felt luckiest in your career—the situations that made you raise a glass to yourself, or to the “luck of the tech pro!” When did you feel like things could have gone terribly wrong but didn’t? Did something break? Get lost or deleted? You know that feeling—all hope seemed lost, but like magic, everything worked out. (At least we hope you know that feeling).

Share your luckiest stories about finding the tech pro pot o’ gold by March 12, 2019, and we’ll give you 250 THWACK points in return!

Parents
  • Many years ago I was showing my son how to make switch changes - IN Production - When he was finished I said "Now do a save start run" As soon as he hit enter I knew my mistake and we were in trouble. I connected directly to the device and was able to do a Save run start and the config ended up being what we intended. I still don't know how that worked, but it did and production was not disrupted - All I can attribute to is pure luck.

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  • Many years ago I was showing my son how to make switch changes - IN Production - When he was finished I said "Now do a save start run" As soon as he hit enter I knew my mistake and we were in trouble. I connected directly to the device and was able to do a Save run start and the config ended up being what we intended. I still don't know how that worked, but it did and production was not disrupted - All I can attribute to is pure luck.

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