Pandora, the primary mortal woman, was created by the gods as a part of Zeus’s plan to punish humanity for Prometheus’s theft of fireside [1].
She was gifted with beauty and intelligence, and Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. For the marriage gift, Zeus gave Pandora a jar (often interpreted as a “box”) and warned her never to open it [1].
Despite warnings, Pandora was curious. She opened the jar, releasing the world’s bringers of evils—leaving only hope trapped inside [2].
Since then, “to open a Pandora’s Box” has been synonymous with doing or starting something that will cause many unexpected problems [3].
Comparing this to my skilled life, the one occasion I felt like I had opened “Pandora’s Box” was once I began working on an information cloud migration/greenfield project several years ago.
And the funny thing is that this thought hasn’t modified years later, even after working on two additional and almost equivalent projects.
Not only did I experience latest “bringers of evil” with every latest data cloud migration project, but I also…
