Ode to a Network Engineer (in the Style of Bukowski)*

you are not a technical sink.

* I feel more like a technical toilet.

You are not an infant made to passively suck up the pabulum from a vendor.

*Whaaa

Do your homework.

*Can’t. I have kids.

Study. See above

Learn.

* If I could learn on my own,I wouldn’t have pabulum around my mouth hole.

Improve yourself.

* Self-improvement is mastur****** –Tyler Durden.

It’s what an engineer is supposed to do.

*That and World of Warcraft.

Don’t expect your employer to do it for you.

* Don’t worry.

Don’t expect applause.

* But don’t be shocked by it.

Your professional life is your responsibility.

* And the democratic National Convention.

Unless your name is Vint Cerf or Brian Kernighan, you are not a rock star.

* Einstein was pretty balla too, wouldn’t ya say?

Or a ninja,

a visionary,

a guru,

a unique or beautiful snowflake,

a pioneer,

a turtle,

a wombat,

Elmo,

a carpenter,

a photon,

Iridium,

Iron Man,

Stevie Wonder,

a piece of chocolate cake,

an ice cream cone,

a slice of Swiss cheese,

a slice of salami,

a lollipop,

a cupcake,

a sausage link,

a piece of cherry pie,

a slice of watermelon,

a beautiful butterfly,

So please take it off your Linkedin page.

Your purpose is to be one part of a symphonic whole orchestrating network harmony.

* I’d swear that was a passage from Mein Kampf