Granted the pay check will be big… but I would have done it again without it. My company held its first annual user conference this year. We had different rooms where we went over parts of our software or in my case, how to setup your hardware to run the software. But the big payback was the fact that I had so many people I had talked to over the phone or met briefly when I flew out to their offices, just come up and thank me for helping them. These were people I had talked to a year ago, that come up and say “I just wanted to tell you thanks.”

Sometimes we all get down on our jobs, and it takes things like that to really give you a perspective. Kind of like, “what difference am I really making?” When you have this line of people that walk up to you and say thanks. Or when a doctors wife walks up and says “You remember when we were talking about my technical problem, and then you told me how to fry a turkey? Can I get that recipe?” It really blew me away that someone remembered the trivial conversation as I was fixing their (at the time) lame issue. It ment enough to them to make a mental note “this guy is fixing my problem”.

Anyway food for thought. I’m back for a while, although who knows how long.. I’ll be flying the friendly skies again soon.

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