1. Work tends to be work, that is, not fun. If you take your "fun" and make it your job, it often ruins it as "fun". You sound like you're looking for fun, a

1. Work tends to be work, that is, not fun. If you take your "fun" and make it your job, it often ruins it as "fun". You sound like you're looking for fun, and you should really be looking for fulfilling work, which is a different beast altogether. 2. Are you good at networking? Are you growing in competence there? Can you actually fix things? Is the work not too horrible? Are the people reasonable, and not in too great a need of debugging? If so, think well before you leave it. 3. Niches aren't forever. I've spent all my career in embedded systems, except for a five-year detour in the middle into network security software. Niches, like jobs, often are only good until they're not; there's nothing wrong with riding them out as long as they're still good.