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Networking is not interesting.

notfred

Lifer
I'm always hearing people say they "ant to go into networking", and for the love of god, I can't figure out why. Networking bores me to sleep. Sure, I like having a network that works, and goes as fast as possible, but I could care less about how many octets of an IP address are used for the network/host in a class A/B/C license, or that ethernet uses 1500 byte packet sizes, or that UDP has an 8 byte header.

The only interesting things I can think of regarding networking are way down low at the hardware level, or way up high at the application level, but if you wanted to work on either of those you'd be going into Electrical engineering or software development. Why does anyone find this intermediate level of data transmission interesting?
 
Originally posted by: notfred
I'm always hearing people say they "ant to go into networking", and for the love of god, I can't figure out why. Networking bores me to sleep. Sure, I like having a network that works, and goes as fast as possible, but I could care less about how many octets of an IP address are used for the network/host in a class A/B/C license, or that ethernet uses 1500 byte packet sizes, or that UDP has an 8 byte header.

The only interesting things I can think of regarding networking are way down low at the hardware level, or way up high at the application level, but if you wanted to work on either of those you'd be going into Electrical engineering or software development. Why does anyone find this intermediate level of data transmission interesting?

Because it pays extremely well.
 
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