"Damn I wish I had your job"

[TrogL]

This happened a few years ago when offices were just really getting into computers in a big way and I was a network administrator.

My boss and I were walking downtown on our way to a dog-and-pony-show. I sing professionally so my voice carriers and my boss is no slouch in the volume department himself. I was bringing him up to speed in a rather nasty technical problem we were having with the network. A bystander probably would have heard:

Me:"...TCP/IP...dropped packets...DECNET...routed protocol..."
Boss:"...802.3...termination...twisted pair..."
Me:"...inefficient use of packet...SQL*NET..."
Boss:"...record length...compression..."

A guy walking ahead of us turned around and said "Damn...I wish I had your job".

Some days I love my work. (not today, stupid server blew a hard drive)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Damn, I wish I had your job.

I'm one of the 749 people in the world who find sysadminning rewarding. :hi:

[Book Lover]

2. Yeah, right

That guy thinks it's all gleaming lights and handheld devices. He doesn't know anything about the dust bunnies under the desk and the end-users' filthy mice and keyboards and the late nights and the moves and the heat in the cage and the...and the...

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I'm glad I'm no longer in IT :-)

[Blue-Jay]

3. I wish I had Roger Ebert's job.

He gets paid to watch movies and tell people if he liked them. What a great gig. I bet he even gets free popcorn and jujubees, the bastard.