I went to collage for precision sheet metal fabrication so I could get at computers that were more advanced than my old TI-99a. Sucked that collage dry, did 116 credits in 4 quarters with a 4.97 gpa. left there and got a job programming lasers and punches whiles repairing their sneaker net cat-2 NETWORK. Took them through the Windows variations, NT servers and small business servers while building and maintaining the databases, purchasing all softwares, cad/cam drafting, and training all 80 users in their specific software's and hardware issues. If it could have a problem it did and I fixed it. I learned to wire the building, build specific use servers, repair my working machines and our computers and interpret what the users were trying to tell me. Your printers are all mine!
Exciting work with a lot of variables, but they thought they could outsource me, foolish people. So I went to work for a world class gaming company for 5 years as an associate network admin. It was an amazing thing to suddenly have a budget, an amazingly large budget and to be a piece of the pie that served and installed that wonderful world class data center. my dirty little fingers in everybody's pie. Having been out of the field for 6 years now I sometimes miss it greatly, on the other hand it's not rattling around in my head 24/7. But I certainly miss the intellectual challenges greatly. the current job is successful mental suicide...