You have a CCNA and you are only getting paid 30k? UH I hate to tell you this but you should be in the 60k Range. If you are not MOVE to where the jobs are.
You are exactly right you are getting paid peanuts. Let me impart my IT wisdom upon you. You work 40 hours a week and they pay you for 40 hours a week.
That is called an even. You worked you got paid.

Don't waste your life at a company who doesn't value your talents. Sure money isn't everything but make sure you are getting maximum benefit for your output.
Don't work at companies who don't upgrade their equipment. You will fall behind and your skills will be less marketable.
Don't work for companies who don't value IT. That's most of them
Don't work for companies who have old tired equipment. You don't want the 2:00am phone calls.
Don't work for companies where you are the entire IT dept. You become the angry IT guy who is still doing Desktop support work for dumb users.

You sir need to move now!

So long and thanks for all the fish! If I had just one last wish, I would like a tasty fish. :)

How about once the Syrians and that's a big if they ever get them up and running, they don't want Stealth fighters making mincemeat out of their so called technological advantage or the newest systems falling into CIA hands to be dissected and a new generation jamming pod being developed.

I'm So Ronery
  So ronery
  So ronery and sadry arone

There's no one
  Just me onry
  Sitting on my rittle throne
I work rearry hard and make up great prans
  But nobody ristens, no one understands
  Seems like no one takes me serirousry

And so I'm ronery
  A rittle ronery
  Poor rittle me

There's nobody
  I can rerate to
  Feel rike a bird in a cage
It's kinda sihry
  But not rearry
  Because it's fihring my body with rage

I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit
  But nobody else seems to rearize it
  When I change the world maybe they'll notice me
But until then I'rr just be ronery
  Rittle ronery, poor rittle me

I'm so ronery

What kind of subtrifuge bullshit is this?

Does this go along the same lines of "the dangerous Satellite could leak hydrazine if it hit the Earth and we need to shoot it down with a Destroyer mounted Sea to space missle?
I guess it will now be OK if the U.S. openly tells the world to prepare for the U.S. to strike by cyber attack.

Blah blah blah Jobs. Blah blah blah LGBT, blah blah blah Gun Control, blah blah Education, blah blah......

Hit all the talking points so nobody is left out. Still nothing is being done except to spend us into oblivion.

You will never convince your team to write better code if you cannot review thier code and throw it back in their face.

Also your QA person should be slapping thier dick in the dirt.

First! You get a Box
Two Cut a hole in it
Three but your dick in a box.

I was very impressed with their news coverage and their specials. I managed to catch a lot of their shows.

In fact it reminded me of CNN of old, Now CNN broadcasts lots of YouTube videos and uses that as news.

The FAA, they always seem to be on that leading edge of change.

Did yah ever think farmers were going to stop producing corn for food and instead make themselves rich selling thier food to make fuel?
Food prices would of course go up since so much of our food contains corn.
The shortage of corn for food would make the farmers rich on both ends.
What is the cost to make 1 gallon of Ethanol? Time+materials+ labor = 2 gallons of Diesel to make 1 gallon of Ethanol?

If Ehtanol is so great how come it's not used in the Aviation industry?

Hooray!

If you questioned why and you still placed your companies life in that data center you should be fired for stupidity.

It's the same reason I won't place my companies data at a DC in a crowded downtown area. Sporting events, politcial events, terrorist events.

If you say you don't have a choice then you haven't thought of alternative means. Cloud, managed hosting, or a more weather stable state.

Lower Manhattan is pretty much land filled area and 911 showed how vulnerable the WTC was below ground. They were extremely concenred about the Hudson flooding lower Manhattan.

Again if you placed your companies data at a DC in lower Manhattan you should be fired.

Why are you using access?

I suggest you get either MySQL or MSSQL to manage your contacts before you find yourself wishing you had put all that data on a real database. Oh wait you are starting to see that already.

Solarwinds?
What are you copying and pasting? You must be looking for some sort of CRM.
http://www.insidecrm.com/articles/crm-blog/the-top-10-opensource-crm-solutions-53507/

You say you are wroking for this small ISP? That means they are also paying you small. If they haven't figured out how they are going to support a larger customer base then leave before the ship sinks. Don't stay loyal to stupid people. The promise of stocks went out during the dot bomb era.

What is happening is you are running into the sales game. Don't think just because someone is caling you that they have a job for you.
I am not going to go into percentages here but a good number of these so called offers are B.S.

They are sales people. They are doing what they are suposed to quote un quote do what sales people do in a cold calling envrionemnt. It's the numbers game.
They get paid if they get some sort of information from you. Even a referal get's them a stale Twinkee of the week award.
They don't read your resume, because if they did they would offer you a interview appointment right then and there.
Or if they do ofer you an interview appointment it's to come to thier boiler room operation where all you hear are noisy phone calls and no privacy. it's like walking into an H&R tax office so that people who are waiting arround can hear what you make and what deductions you can't take.

Don't waste your time. Don't even give them more than 1 min on the phone.

Here is how a successful phone call should work.

Ring ring.
Hello?
Hello Mr. so and so. I was looking over you resume and I am interested in your skills. We have a position open at a company _______ fill in the blank.
Starting Salary $$ benefits and whatever else they have to offer.
What would be the best time for you to come in for the interview?

If they don't have that down just hang up.

People love to waste your time. In fact there would be more millionares per capita if people were paid on the sole premise to waste your freaking time.

This is a bogus article because if you put yourself up for auction you arent going to get any offers and in fact I don't think people have the time to play let's see who we can get for X ammount of dollars. You better be a well known superstar if you think you can offer yourself to the highest bidder.

Most large organizations have outsourced your so called superstar programming experience to India anyway. These companies don't care if they get a workable product that serves the customer, all they care about is how quick thier project gets launched and how much money they saved up front. It's the same stupid shortsighted bullshit that American cars manufactures use. get the product out at all costs and when the recall happens fire the head of the engineering division because we decided to go with the low ball 20 cent micro switch over the $1.00 one that causes parking brakes to disenguage.

Gee let me wear this contraption that will garner all sorts of attention.

I can understand someones desire to express his art but to do it in an airport with TSA screeners who are basically highschool push outs is just fucking stupid.
I guess he can express his creativity in a public holding cell, see if they give a fuck about your expressionism.