[digitalsushi]

Base comp. I'm on call 365/7/24. But I get called about twice per year. If I can't be resposible for it, I just make arrangements. It's a good salary and I dont think twice about it. I'm tier 3, and tier 2 should be the last call made if everything works out.

20 years earlier I was a kid working at an ISP earning 31k USD salary with the same 365/7/24, and getting paged about three times a week off hours, and most of them being drive outs, either to the POP an hour out, or our furthest problem client 3 hours away. I had no idea that it was a bad deal. Even with all the learning I was doing ... it was a bad deal. Most of those pages during the winter were our AC freezing cause we wouldnt pay maintanence on it. 120kbtu in a 12x16 room, the AC would freeze shut, and I'd drive in at 2am to leave a window open. One side of the room was -10F, the other side was 120F. We didn't stay in business. It's how I got in with life and went to college.