[Viking2002]

I've been a support grunt. Install/repair/config desktops, servers, switches, network print services, AD admin, some Citrix and other enterprise-level services, that sort of end-to-end work. The money used to be great, and I figured that they'd never be able to outsource us, but what's left out there nowadays is like being a plantation hand. Granted, I'm an hour from any city of any size (Atlanta is one), but it has just dried up, and anything out there is either POS servicing, or telecom. The only good-paying gigs out there in the salary range you're talking about are project contracts, and I'm about done with that crap. It's feast or famine. And I've done both. I'd like a modicum of stability for a change.

[dp0622]

my heart goes out. they tried to and succeeded in most places with outsourcing to India the presentations centers.

but at Lazard, they were so bad they closed down after two years,

so i was set, 70k, great benefits, the works, then God laughed and I got a head injury :)

8 years later working on Staten Island in dispatch center as supervisor,. Money is Very good for Staten Island and fiance makes good dough like i said, so we’ll be ok.

i’m 47. at 35 i was going to conquer the world.

It conquered me lol.

I like that line from Gladiator. It fits to more than death.

“Death laughs at men. All a man can do is laugh back”

You could put “life” in there too.

i dont let the leftover symptoms destroy me and I just try to laugh at the whole absurd thing that doesn’t make any sense or have any point unless God is real.

I’m not taking any chances :)