When you can’t make one particular computer connect to the network… when you have to deal, yet again, with a recurring arcane problem that tends to fix itself once enough random things have been pressed or jiggled… when the powers that be keep coming to you for answers that you don’t have about why things aren’t quite right… when projects keep piling up and you keep not having hours in the day or spare sets of hands or eyes to deal with them… you wonder why you love the job so much after all.

Then again, someone dangled a rather nifty carrot in front of me today. I hope something actually comes of it…