I'm a Network Engineer for the City of Biloxi, MS during the day. At night I build homes, currently my own which don't pay much, actually its costing me out the ass and I plan to stay in debt for the rest of my life. I've done alot and I'm sure that before its all over I will do plenty more. Make the real dough taking care of a couple of Networks outside of the city and plan to take more on once the house is finished.
For the younger guys, for instance the one that runs the eqiuipment or however you spelled it, if you cannot spell equipment drunk off your rear just as I am, do better in school, trust me, your life will be easier for it.
For the Unix administrator, I thought all you guys did was learn new switches to do something that would normally take 1/3 of a second to click on, lol. All kidding aside, I have the respect for you guys, not everyone can do what you do and mostly won't even admit it if asked, hehe