I am in my 60s, and weigh about 15-20 lbs. more than I weighed in my 20s. I take a prescribed blood pressure pill daily. It works out to 30 cents a day iirc. In other words, seconds worth of my pay per day. It's not that expensive to me, I have no idea how much my health insurance covers, if any.

I work day shift Thursday and Friday, 12 hour night shifts Saturday and Sunday. And I've been doing it for 15 years. The day shifts are for meetings and the night shifts cover our change window. The only way to do it, for me, is to have a routine of when I sleep and when I eat (never before 6 PM).
It's not the worst shifts I've worked. That would have been rotating shifts every 3 weeks, early in my career.

I too am in my 60s. I work because I get paid well, and have the easiest job in IT that I have had in 40 years. It helps that I am an expert at certain things, and people know it. And I'd be difficult to replace because I have a wide variety of skills developed over my career. If an intern or recent college grad is nice to me, then I'll help them. If they are not nice, then I'll just quietly laugh at their mistakes...as long as customers aren't affected or if they might break something, then I'll speak up. Since I'm not management, it's not my problem.

Tastes the same to me ;)

Actually, no. You get a phone tree if you call. If you have a support contract, you are not charged (I get frequent calls from the IBM national support manager when something calls home).

No support contract, last I heard around 2001, it was provide a credit card number and $500 an hour.

Try it if you don't believe me.

Having called that number since the 1970s, you do not have to be 21. Just have to figure out weird accents.

It was a Continental DC-10, made by McDonnell Douglas, that lost a strip of metal that the Concorde ran over (12 years before Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas).

Punched cards on an IBM mainframe computer, way back when, usually had sequence numbers in the last 8 columns. So if I dropped my program, I just had to put them back in order by using the numbers.
And vi was way better than edlin as an editor. Using edlin as an editor in DOS sucked. You could write an assembler program in it but the program was limited to 64k iirc, but that was long, long ago.

Amazon: your 1.44 GB files don't seem to be photos, and violate TOS. So we deleted them. I'm sorry, they were your only backups? Oh, you are right, a movie is a series of photos. And they were of you and your girlfriend? We'll try and recover them and we will all try to determine if they violate the TOS.

In the late 90s, the owner of a company worked for, we didn't have the time for and owner didn't have the patience to deal with a customer. So he quoted $2,000 for me to fix a problem. Customer said yes, and a few hours later problem was fixed. If a customer is not happy, imho they can move on. Owner is always right, if customer doesn't lose money and wasn't discriminated against, he should move on.

Someone who knows what carriage return means :)
Actually back in the 70s is when IBM did this iirc. But I get old, and yes, I used the original IBM PC.

A very informative comment :)

And vi rules! lol

Oddly enough, I know 2 out of those companies. I almost went to work for Fluke at one time. Decided the commute (Seattle area) wasn't worth it. Haven't really followed them in years. I did work for Harman for a couple of years, walking distance from my home at the time (Northridge) and the owner at the time Sydney Harman was stupid in many, many ways. As in bragging at an all hands meeting about one of his young kids arranging a limo in the Carribean, and oh yes, btw, I'm laying off 1/3 of the company.

If this was in the 1970s and involved the International Travel Association iirc, I was probably the person who discovered this.

I bet if the instructions said to take it for 10 days, their flu will be cured. And they'll tell all their friends of the wonderful homeopathic cure.

Dang! Smartest comment I've read so far. Me? I only have 30-40 years computer experience. Moved around a lot. But I keep running into former co-workers, vendors etc. So the teen age kid from India I met on IRC circa late 1990s is now someone important at MS. Or the guy I met on IRC from Finland, well I got ill when we were thinking of visiting Linus. Doesn't matter. Your rep will follow you. And I stand by my rep, despite moving around all over North America (and friends all over the world). Of course, my ex-wife, the RN and MD, and my current wife don't view me the same way lol.