Awesome post and poignant as I've gone through that twice. I had a person show me the way on layer 1 at one company and another person showed me the light of networking at another company. If it weren't for them I wouldn't be as happy as I am today. Not a week goes by that I don't say to myself, I love what I do. Teaching the guys under me the skill to be good at this just makes me prouder to be the netowrk engineer I am today. Good post Bill!