Skulemate, you rock! Taking Graduate studies in watercooling? That is obsession, not hobby.
24, 13 years programming experience (kid prodigy ... managed a development department at a software firm when I was 16 ... f*ck child labor laws), most of a BSCS (waste of time, don't ever want to finish), EE in USN (waste of time, never want to go back), extra physics/mechanical engineering in college (interesting stuff, there).
Now I'm a system administrator for a small company, design/implement databases, do Bastard Operator From Hell stuff as an added bonus, and do custom programming as the jobs arise.
PS: read the BSOD (
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html) stuff. You'll then know how my typical workday goes.