I was asked this once, and equated it to a water treatment plant; When you wake up in the morning, and you stumble out of bed to brush your teeth. You turn the knob to the faucet and you don’t think about how the water gets there, through all the pipes, and all the people that water has seen since it was locked in some mountain.
When this all happens, you think nothing of it, you twist the knob, and you get the water. My network is the pipes that hold the water, I’m the sewage treatment plant foreman, the water company foreman, the pipe fitter, and the plumber.
So long as you can access the network, go onto the banking sites, and perform your job, I’m in the background helping. I’m the NAVY seal of IT. If I do a good job, you don’t even know that I’m here. If I don’t do a good job, everyone knows it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4rmqi6/why_are_we_all_so_depressed/