What a rough day today was. It was going so good until I had a server melt into the floor (not literally but felt like it). It was a night mare but I got it back together. Good to see the group. How are things?
HaVe YoU TrIeD tUrNiNg It OfF aNd BaCk On AgAiN????
Nah, I know the feeling. Sometimes one of our core systems will go down at work and often it takes hours for it to be resolved. Those days, at least for those hours, are absolute hell.
HA! I was in those days but not anymore. Now its me arguing with a counter party. "My software works you are just doing a bunch of weird shit that its not designed to do." And they respond, "The person who sold me this said that it was going to be no problem and no matter what happens you are going to fix it without question." - Typing this physically hurts. LOL
I honestly think its every "engineering" style role. Whether sales engineer, solutions engineer, marketing engineer... etc. You're a high level problem solver in a field of expertise and absolutely necessary as a part of retention.
The other 25% of that is meetings ... and there is a 90% chance you are googling shit too.
I was counting backwards from 10 waiting for the anesthesia to kick in, but before the lights went out I couldn't help noticing my doctor Googling "How do you remove an appendix from a human body?" I got to keep my appendix, but I'm now without one of my kidneys.