1st
USAF avionic tech. (6 years)
then
software engineer for no name companies like Cisco, Lucent, 3Com and a whole lot of companies that went under. (27 years)
burned out, crashed and burned, moved to Maine
now
I still trouble shoot system failures but as an
EMT 3 days on 4 days off
aka field service tech for God
miss the computer paycheck,
DON'T miss the BS
used to be that I would go to a company who's computer network crashed and get it working, and they would scream and yell that it cost them a bajillion dollars an hour for down time.
now I go to someone's house who just had a heart attack, work it, and tell their spouse of 60 years, sorry..... and they give me a weak smile and thank me for trying.
makes you wonder about some people's sense of priority /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif