In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened: 1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful. 2 -

In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened: 1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful. 2 - When something broke as a result of assuming risks to deliver stuff, I was blamed, not business. So I realized the most rational thing I could do was to become a bureaucrat and ended up leaving. Now I work in a place where business and IT are in the same team and have the same financial incentives. I tend to make reasonable consesions and business people actually care about security and keeping tech debt sane. Pretty cool.