One of the best clients I had told me something once (she knew IT pretty well and was a very good manager). (paraphrasing) In her experience, only 10-15% of peo

One of the best clients I had told me something once (she knew IT pretty well and was a very good manager). (paraphrasing) In her experience, only 10-15% of people in IT actually knew what they were doing and were good at it. The next 20%-25% had something of an idea and could get stuff done, but you had to pay attention to them. The bottom 65-60% were basically useless.... I think it does take a certain <something> to really grasp this field at a deep level, but as most jobs are CRUD type ones, that level of skill is not essential - and as always, the money / business side of things always trumps the engineering.