We had my company's holiday dinner this evening. We went to a silly restaurant where they have a GYO section on the menu. That's right, Grill Your Own! I opted to grill my own 8oz filet mignon to perfection. Well, not quite perfection as I let it get slightly more done than I prefer, but considering this was the first steak I ever cooked, it was pretty good!
Unfortunately the dinner came at the end of a long, frustrating day at work. The irritation started this morning with a phone call from my boss. A guy who works for Siemens, with whom I've been working a little bit on a project for one of our clients, evidently told the client that the project is held up because I don't know what I'm doing.
Now I will be the first to tell you that I have a lot to learn. That's because EVERYBODY has a lot to learn. No matter how much you come to know, there will always be much, much more that you don't know. Anyway, back to the point, I've amassed a fair amount of networking expertise so far in my life, and I'll be damned if I'm going to have an overpaid software technician tell me I don't know what I'm doing (or worse, tell others that I don't know what I'm doing). Anyway, as a result of this little drama, I spent the day sitting in a parking lot of one of the company's satelite offices, in my car, with my laptop, making changes to the network firewalls to try to overcome a VPN data corruption problem (I used wifi from the car because the office is so small there is no where for me to work inside without getting in somebody's way).
Just in case anyone is interested, evidently you can go work for Siemens and make $65k/year with a $3500 Christmas bonus (the guy told me all this while I was working on a server one day) working with applications that transfer data across networks, all that without knowing jack about networking! (despite the fact that he told me his company sent him to "network training"). Ugh. Where do you find a vomiting smiley when you need one.
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