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We had the option to let the computer division assemble everything but they were backed up for a few months. So, being the low man on the totem pole, it was my job. After a few jobs like that, I became the branch tech guy and because of that, when I got a new permanent job at a company and they decided to add computers and then a network, I ended up being the network administrator and tech guy. I didn’t want to be a network administrator because you see a disproportionate amount of the bad side in people. The visits to porn sites in company time, inappropriate jokes again on company time, using company resources for private gain, being plain stupid and lazy, etc. And that was before the current polarized state of things. I trained a tech savvy secretary to be my replacement and she was happy for the promotion. I went back to engineering and then quit to, of all things, start a shareware company. 

That worked out quite well for about a decade but I could see that changing technology was going to obsolete my programs so I went back to work in my old industry but at a remote office. Networks improved by then and our office network was mostly run my the main office but, you guessed it, because of my background, I was the backup administrator and did some daily tinkering that was best done in person. It wasn’t bad though as by that time most people were more tech savvy. 

I’ve been retired for over eight years now but it sure was an interesting ride. I’m glad to see people still tinkering. I’m glad it is at a higher level than sticking memory chips into a board.