Money...
Cleverness...
Sloth...
Babes...
Fame...
Only on person had it all....Bill Murray...
Seriously, if you have money in the bank or the ability to put money in the bank do that for a year or two...then chuck it all, and do something completely out of character...like go volunteer some place...go sailing, visit all the baseball parks in one season, take up something inherently selfish for a few years and enjoy the world and it's people...meet people, love and enjoy the beauty of the world. When you have run out of money go back to work and you will be surprised how motivated you will be. Motivated to fill the bank again so you go off on another adventure...life is too short to be a code monkey or a slave to your customers...or strapped to someone's insane project and crappy software...go now.

Figure out:

how much downtime costs the company

how many of those incidents are due to engineers screwing up servers or databases

which engineers are avoiding engineering work doing IT work

compare labor costs of a IT pro and Engineer

If you can cost justify having six IT pros, couple of OS admins, couple of DBAs and a few tech support persons then it should be a no brainer...companies would rather pay engineers to do engineering work...not setting up PC's or installing and managing databases or patching windows servers....

Then sell them the bacon later...

That is because our industry has lost the discipline and skill to design, lead and implement custom software projects. I used to "clean up" those failed projects...I would come in and do damage control after people failed and got fired or quit and the entire IT department was pissed off. It takes people trained in software development management and the development lifestyle running the show with a organization that gives the professionals the ability to run the project...not the VP of sales....or marketing. Many industries can benefit from having a quality, professional highly skilled and well paid development staff...

problem is it is too late. That dog ran away in 2001...blame it on consulting. I guess...I blame it on greed.

Yes and thankfully the rise of Christianity's mysticism in the western world...that pretty much guaranteed a large portion of humanity would maintain a firm distrust of science...to this day.

That is no moon.

He can try and support a OS with no professional support at 3 a.m.

Those are illegal and can burn your house down...what is that you say? Test? Not meth?...Oh well that is very different. Nevermind.

I said "I don't think it is appropriate for you to be asking about my sexuality."

nevermind...

Those Rotaries on the race track are super blatty...

No wonder that calamari is off Leviticus' menu....unnatural fin-less fish. They obviously choose to mate with their own sex, these squid make bad lifestyle choices, they are ruining traditional marriage.

Why wait until someone pisses you off...?

I'm not seeing it.

Most Corps use Microsoft Outhouse already.