[mikets]

Good for you. Curiousity is a very powerful drive. As with other techie things, being good at technology whether electronics or programming, you will be the person to go to when somebody has a problem. To a certain extent, this is goodness. But it can be overwhelming at times. I became the support person for all my neighbors, family, friends or even friends' friends. Whether their computers do not boot any more, their computers are too slow, neighbor's furnace is not working, ... You get the point. Most of the time, I do help them solve their issues. However, one thing I decided not to help any more is: "my computer is infected with viruses, help!" I fixed a few of these but then I discovered the same people get infected over and over again. It is extremely time consuming to clean up viruses and I am not good at it (i.e. efficient at it). Despite of that, I do enjoy building little projects from time to time. My last fun project was building a 12 TB server from scratch, installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on it, created several VMs on it and dedicated one of the VMs as our team's source control server.