Ken
Aim:
I burned out on the 24/7/366 on call, but after I went down with the ship, (company bought out by a national which crashed and burned within 2 years due to Enron type accounting irregularities) I and several others, got a job rebuilding the network and automating it (the same thing I had been trying to do for the original owners with no cash) and the team from Wolfenet did such a good job that the entire network is now run by a couple of people.
I still do occasional consulting for several companies and fix computers (mostly for free) but I have pretty much given up on getting a job that involves convincing a 25 year old HR manager that I actually do have 25 years experience with computers and 20 with networks and that I can do any of the laundry list of work involving computers.
I suspect it is the gray hair. And the fact that the young’uns don’t really believe there were computers in the 1980’s. For all I know, they think they were steam driven.