[Brian_K_White]

To me that seemingly irrelevant reading/doing is all still enhances the daytime facility.

And I don't think it's unfair any more than for automechanics or woodworkers or anything else.

If you're only in IT because it's seen as paying well, I can't express how little sympathy I have for that complaint.

Really just think about that, it's unfair that I spent a million hours figuring out how to get tech to do things instead of going to parties I wasn't invited to by those same people, and they didn't, and now I know how to do things and get paid for it, and that's unfair?

Unfair would be if you want to talk about the uneven distribution of the luxury and opportunity to spend a million hours playing with IT stuff. Not everyone has or had the access to the toys and the time to play with them, but you can say that about everything else also, like every musician or artist.

Is it unfair that their favorite guitarist really loved playing and practing 24/7 all their life? It's so unfair they can't just punch in somewhere at 9 and punch out at 5 and not e en like guitar or be very good at it, and still be a rock star?