ya, at my place we do some pretty complex designs (lanesplitter also works with me and he is very talented) but i will say that if u decide to go into anything with design, you are gonna have to accept criticism, ridiculous deadlines at times and at some point you will end up rearranging your plans around work. there arent many jobs that you will walk in and leave the same time everyday. in this field its all about deadlines and you have to meet them, end of story. you can go from being bored and surfing this site all day to stayin late for OT, just like that. its just something that seems to come with the line of work though.
good network engineers make a hell of a lot of money. just throwing that out there. May involve a decent amount of travel, but still a hell of a lot of money.
Travel isn’t always bad though! I’d like to be able to go somewhere different every once in a while, whether it’s just the next town over or another state.
As if we have never moved from one end of the country to the other before.
If you are anything like me- You can stand to be in the same state more than 6 years… 
Which reminds me… its been about that long.