I'm wondering if I am all one when I say I have lost all joy of computers. I have been in this buisness for 6 years and in all that time I loved the challenge of working on computers I would wake up in the morning and look forward to what I could solve today but now I dread it to some degree.
Now when I'm working on a computer I just hope that the user will leave me the hell alone and not ask questions or anything. I'm getting tired of tracking down every little thing that caused the system to give an error. I get tired of explaining the difference between applications and user data. I'm tired of customers complaining that their NEW computer is not any faster than their old junk computer when they are on the internet. Oh, and there is always the people that want to know why their accounting software printed out junk when they forgot to switch from A to B on their printer switch box. And when you are working on a small network and they are asking why their network is so slow, but they refuse to upgrade to 100Mbps with a switch instead of a hub. I'm just tired of all this sh*t. And since I've gotten my MCSE, it seems that it is all getting worse! I'm thinking about getting into the AS/400 market or something or maybe since everbody is getting 2 or 3 computers for there home and trying to network them all together, they think that they know more than you do about computers & networking. Sometimes, I wish that I could just go back to the bench and work alone solving computer issues and not have to EVER see a end user. Windows sux and has not caused anything but a headace for me.
When I work on SUN workstations or HP/UX workstations, nobody EVER second guesses me...you know why? They don't know anything about X or such. All they know to do is just what they are supposed to do for there job. They don't know how to mount the cdrom much less install software that causes a problem. If it was harder for users to install software and the only applications that they could use were what they were supposed to use the world would be a better place.
I guess that I am just fed up with all the crap that comes with dealing with end users and if it wasn't for my pay I would get out of this buisness tomorrow!
If any of you other techs feel the same way let out a little steam here.

...I feel better now.