I have a thought that has been resonating in my head all week, well probably for a couple of weeks.  It was a comment made at the Tampa Bay SQL Server User Group Holiday gathering last month.  To set the scene…it was a moment of frivolity where several of us where debating as to who had the best job.  Naturally, everyone denied that it was their job and thus pointed to another member at the table and espoused the reasons that they believed that person to have the best job.  When the TBSSUG version of Quentin Tarrantino, yes looks and mannerisms but not the height, turns to me and says the following:

Tarrantino:  “Hey what about you, do you have the best job?”

Me:  “No, I don’t think so….”

Tarrantino:  “Why not, what disqualifies your job?”

Me:  “My job is not 100% SQL, therefore it cannot be the best job, in my opinion.  I have other Windows Server administrative duties, I am a VMWare administrator (which is a positive and not a negative even though it may not seem like that from the tone of this blog), I have to attend numerous pointless meetings, and I have to deploy numerous dot NET applications, which should disqualify me automatically.  I am personally responsible for approximately 200 servers.  Don’t get me wrong, but I love my job, except for the pointless meetings, but that is a separate blog topic.  I just don’t think it would be the best job, that would be a job where I was a SQL DBA for 100 percent of my duties…”

Tarrantino:  “100%, that would be the worst job….who would want to do that?  SQL and nothing else, that would be boring…no way…you’re crazy…(turns to the next person) What about you, is your job the best?”

It was a silly conversation served up with a delicious beverage and Christmas cookies, so why does it still bother me?  Is it the fact that one of my peers does not share the same passion for SQL Server?  Or is it the fact that maybe I am Don Quixote and this is my windmill:  chasing a dream of a golden job opportunity in a town called Perfect. 

What do you think?  Enjoy