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Why do I care about the welfare of a company that wouldn't pay me enough to be a support engineer?

That's a great point. I agree. But it's an unfortunate reality.

I'd be willing to be on call late at night, and/or be a systems support engineer, but the pay needs to be commensurate

What are the chances that your company doesn’t pay enough to make it worth it? I know that the major cloud providers pay Technical Account Managers or the equivalent enough to get Americans to be at an enterprise’s beckon call day or night.

You can’t tell me that you couldn’t get a qualified Americans for 70% of what the major cloud providers pay.