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"Guys are fascinated and scared by girls who roll up their sleeves and take on a job that society labels as “men’s work”"

Actually, I'm fascinated and scared by all IT people who roll up their sleeves and do manual labour.

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An in return, I'm always slightly shocked by this kind of attitude. Just because I write code for a living doesn't mean that I had to forget how to do everything remotely practical first. If I'm confronted by a job that requires manual labour, I don't just stand there saying "oh I'm an IT person, I can't possibly do this".

It's the reverse. I can't carry a bottle of chemicals without spilling it on myself, or take apart an machine without dropping a few pieces in the sewer, so I stick to the virtual world where my poor hand-eye coordination won't get me killed.

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