From: CDInchauste <inchaust@students.uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.sysadmin.recovery] Re: How do you describe your job?
Date: 1 Mar 1998 18:37:24 GMT

Subject: Re: How do you describe your job?
From: jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery

Stephen Edwards (ja207030@primenet.com) wrote:
: jason m. laughman <laughman.2@osu.edu> wrote:

: : good, short description to use, but the best I've come up with is
: : "Well, I'm pretty much in charge of the computers.  If they break I
: : have to fix them and figure out what happened, and if they don't I
: : have to try and improve them."  I don't like that one very much, though.

: Just say this....

: "I fix computers, and break fingers."[0]

: [0] Substitute fingers with your favorite appendages... knees, skulls,
: arms, noses (not an appendage, but...), etc.

"Carbon-based cost unit caring for silicon-based cost units, for
 the benefit of other carbon-based cost units".

A cow-orker calls me Father Sysadmin; sigh, it describes me all too
accurately:

  o social life, whatever a "life" is
  o sex life; one more year of celibacy, and I can reapply for virginity.
  o work "schedule", as though we can schedule lightning taking out
    a Cisco 4500 at 03:00 on a Sunday.
  o age, 35 (hex)