why did i pick the profession that will have me near mental collapse after hours of fruitless troubleshooting, only to present the solution (which was me being less dumb) on a virtual silver platter, minutes after i start the next day

why did nobody warn me that this was a bad life choice

@ellotheth you obviously didn't ask me early enough 
@cynicalsecurity this is exactly the problem! i don't know what i don't know!
@ellotheth yeah, well, given my profession after more than three decades it seems I didn't get the memo either, did I? 
@ellotheth hrm, when does one start saying "almost four decades" is the next question :flan_XD"
@cynicalsecurity i mean technically you could say "a little over three decades" indefinitely