Aimed too low. If you are smart enough to be hirable in tech, you are smart enough to do so much more, and less clever people than you luck in to more success, so be luckier.
Also in the 90's, knocked west coast offline by null routing the /24 that contained peer router addresses. Broke DNS for a few thousand domains by corrupting named.db on our primary NS before going to lunch, editing the sendmail.cf on the primary mail server in production for an ISP without revision control. I worked for the kind of people who could debug a sendmail.cf cold, so they could afford to have someone as dumb as me around, but still, I meddled in the afairs of wizards.
Also in the 90's, knocked west coast offline by null routing the /24 that contained peer router addresses. Broke DNS for a few thousand domains by corrupting named.db on our primary NS before going to lunch, editing the sendmail.cf on the primary mail server in production for an ISP without revision control. I worked for the kind of people who could debug a sendmail.cf cold, so they could afford to have someone as dumb as me around, but still, I meddled in the afairs of wizards.