You will grow to look apon your pager as a festering painful sore that you cannot heal
Actually, it will get to be old shit after awhile. Often the person doing the paging has no clue. They just know you have the magic touch to make the problems go away.
I've begun to implement an "idiot fine" when the callout is for something stupid. If the company is going to waste my time I pad my callout time accordingly.
For perspective, we get paid time and a half for callouts when we can fix a problem from home & double time if we have to leave. The are calculated at a 2hr minimum. Most switching system techs "say" all their callout of the double time nature & hose the company for the extra $$.
One of the more lucretive callouts where maximum idiot fine was implemented, I was called out to work a small (really small) problem in an area about 150 miles from home during a snow storm. They paid me about 8 hours at double time for just driving. It took me almost 60 seconds to fix a problem. I had to push a reset button.
I spent about 2 hours paid time shopping in Cabela's on that trip.