The reality show America's Toughest Jobs debuts on Monday. Contestants will be logging, oil drilling, building bridges, and bullfighting. All of those jobs are rough and flashy and that stuff makes for good television, but if you want to talk about the toughest jobs in America then IT deserves a place on the list.

Working in IT is one of the toughest jobs in world, and TechRepublic is there to make it a little easier for the 10 million IT pros on the planet. There's often not a lot of sympathy for IT as a hard job because IT workers are typically well paid, and it is a desk job, after all. The following is a list of <A HREF="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=822&tag=nl.e550">five things that can make working in IT tortuous at times.</A>