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I've heard a lot of talk from various companies considering actual implementations.
They seem to be getting stuck at the "How does this save us money right now?" question.

Congratz! The important part is to always continue learning and improving. Far too many people in networking get comfortable and stop improving themselves. GL on the future career

Beer isn't either, in some places in Europe...

I'm in the US and we have Beer Friday @ 3pm every week, on friday obviously.

In my lab I use the wizards from LotR and a letter/number
ex) alatar_f1 , gandalf_c3

Production stuff I'm one that describes the product/function
ex) 4200_flr2_lb

I'm not a fan of hyphens in names, underscores avoid more issues/bugs for the products I work with.

Current company pays for vouchers upfront, has bonus each quarter for hitting professional development goals, has annual training $$$ for each employee

Because naturally networkers are booze hounds.

damn ... an outcast once again

I'm with you. I bought a bottle of makers mark 8 months ago, have yet to open it.

Mayhaps a rep bar instead of counter?

hmmm i have very limited LB experience but in a 'typical' 2 arm deployment doesn't a LB (typically) source NAT the incoming client IP? so the web server should see only the hide IP?

or do you mean that the web app/site uses IP addresses @ layer 7?

Typical deployment would use SNAT of some type, changing the source IP.

A surprising amount of applications require the actual client IP address to work properly so you either need to implement X-Forwarded-For or adjust your routing so that SNAT isn't needed.

I ask, do the web servers respond in anyway to the clients directly (or grab resources directly), answer is no. 2 months later here we are inserting in x-forward-for so web servers can handle client public

I deal with exactly that scenario at least 2-3x per week.

Wirelurker is something to be aware of for any of you iOS/Mac people. Not a CVE or anything, but thought it fit in here.

It's changed over time. I go whenever I can fit it into my schedule.

For a year or so I had an early shift and was off at 3:00PM. This was nice. I went straight to the gym after work and could pick the kids up from daycare/get home before dinner
I've done 5:00AM workouts for a few 5-6 month gaps before going back to evenings. I am not a morning person, so this only worked when I had a workout buddy meeting me there at 5AM and I didn't want to ditch him just to sleep a few minutes

These days I go right after we put the girls to sleep. Usually 7-8PM. It gives the wife a little time to do 'her thing' and watch any shows we don't both like, do some reading, etc.
Very rarely I'll have to skip a day, but then I just make the day up on Saturday or Sunday during my kids nap time or whenever it is convenient.

*unrelated sidenote @Atrum: FFIX will be remembered as when Squaresoft began their decent into releasing crap games*

Ha! I played VII VIII and IX a whole lot. IX was the last for me that really felt like FF. X was OK. I bought X-2, loaded it up and was greeted by a singing pop band Yuna... <sigh>

My favorite is going to the gym. Generally if I go straight home my children are at their peak energy levels around that time and take full concentration to survive without incurring damage. Work thoughts = gone.

My favorite is when a client says "Is there ANY chance that this will bring the network down" when we're troubleshooting an issue that had their device randomly crashing.

Hey everyone, I was known as G1lgam3sh a long, long time ago on a forum far, far away.

I've been some iteration of the title 'Network Engineer' at an ISP and a Hospital.

These days I work at F5 Networks dealing primarily with load balancers, dns services, and a bit of security. Most of my day is spent deciding to never do business with Fortune 50 company X or Y again after seeing their network design and accompanying support staff. I also spending a copious amount of time capturing packets and analyzing or reviewing the captures with clients 

Non-work things I have a (hot) wife, 2 little girls (3rd child on the way), play video games, watch anime, play guitar and piano, ski (snow or water), attend a weekly chess club, powerlift, read just about any book, and listen to as much music as I can.

Needless to say sleep is rather minimal.