I'm in networking. There is nothing routine about networking. Some days you are up at 4am upgrading something then pretend to be a functioning human being until you can go home and crash. Other days you come in fully rested and have a 4/5 chance of getting a lot of work done, or a 1/5 chance of having to work on a "crisis" which 9/10 times is some problem someplace else with some other person's network or equipment and not as much of a crisis as it was made out to be by the people who frantically ran into your office. When you do get work done it's a mix of site visits, plodding your way through interoperability configurations (more often than not in AAA), trying to discern what new products your boss wants to buy actually do from sales brochures and shoddy manuals, or spending all day on phone/email/remote-desktop sessions with vendors answering the same questions over and over for each escalation level of their support team until they finally agree to fix a bug... oh sorry we are supposed to say "file a feature request" these days I guess.