{"id":109,"date":"2009-04-09T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/have-you-been-a-data-crisis-counselor\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:01:34","slug":"have-you-been-a-data-crisis-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/have-you-been-a-data-crisis-counselor\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Been a Data Crisis Counselor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blog_post_dirty.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Jobs\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Dan Tynan&#8217;s article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/adventures-in-it\/7-dirtiest-jobs-in-it-937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 7 dirtiest jobs in IT<\/a>&#8221; hit a nerve with many an IT worker, and Tynan followed it up with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/adventures-in-it\/even-dirtier-it-jobs-muck-stops-here-002?page=0,1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Even dirtier IT jobs<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Number six on the list of the dirtiest jobs? <em>Data crisis counselor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a person on the other end of the phone from &#8220;sobbing adults who&#8217;ve lost images or videos of their recently deceased parents&#8221; and dentists, and IT managers, and tons of others who <a href=\"\/blog\/youve-lost-data-without-a-backupnow-what\/\">lost data<\/a> and were frantic, upset, and panicked. Kelly Chessen, who has this job for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivesavers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DriveSavers<\/a>, a firm that tries to recover data from dead hard drives, says her five years on a suicide prevention line is what prepared her best for this position.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been an unwitting data crisis counselor for a friend or family member?<br \/>\nMake sure they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-backup\/personal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back up<\/a> so you don&#8217;t have to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Tynan&#8217;s article &#8220;The 7 dirtiest jobs in IT&#8221; hit a nerve with many an IT worker, and Tynan followed it up with &#8220;Even dirtier IT jobs.&#8221; Number six on the list of the dirtiest jobs? Data crisis counselor. 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