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Originally Posted by ncarter124

And here I am almost wetting my pants for a lousy $300 quarterly bonus. Good Lord my life sucks balls.

When I first started out, I set the record for the most daily and quarterly profit/production for my area (we are talking 6+ million a day here) in the history of the company I worked for (not anymore). I got a $100 bonus and an increase to 8 bucks an hour even though I oversaw 62 people plus floaters through 5 production modules (only counting 1 for the record) and trained techies coming out of the Navy/Air Force how to troubleshoot PCBs, etc (because I knew the logic of over 2000 motherboards we produced). The techs made $14+ an hour and when they couldn't figure out an issue, they came to me. I also kept the books. 14 hours a day - 7 days a week. I had to report to the President of the company (this is no small operation) 3 times a day to give status. I got wise and 7 months later I'm making $24 an hour as a network technician and it blossomed from there. If you have certain Efficient Networks, Nortel, Bay Networks, Hughes, Cisco, etc from the late 90s...chances are very good I at least touched it. I kept Efficient Networks in business (they almost sank right off the bat) by producing the first 500 production DSL modems (by hand) on Christmas day when the rest of the company was on company holiday. I still have my Efficient Networks DSL modem...anytime I use DSL, I switch to it because it's the fastest for some reason (2WIRE sucks). I got hired as a developer (with no code writing ability) from a dot com, went on to final QA testing, datacenter hosting, and my partime gig in security went full time about six years ago.

Ok, that's the story of my life - I'm done