The UNF Computer Lab (1986)
As a student at UNF in 1986 studying toward my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information Science, I wanted a job in the student computer lab. 
They said there were no openings and the waiting list was long for anyone who wanted to work there.
I had not been at UNF long. It was my junior year after graduating from Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCJ) with an Associate Degree in Arts and Science (AAS). Did I say I really wanted to work there?
One day soon after, I had just finished a study session and I sat down at one of the UNIX 3B2 systems and decided to see what UNIX was all about. I quickly found I could log on as a guest. So I created a dummy logon script that captured the logon and password of anybody who sat there and emailed the information to the system administrator. Tom Blakely, a senior computer science professor and UNIX system administrator, sat down at that very terminal and logged on. (I intentionally picked a prominent terminal right up front, highly likely to be used). He finished what he was doing and walked upstairs. A few minutes later, he returned quite abruptly and somewhat agitated. He looked straight at me and said: "You want a job, don't you?" I said yes. I started the next day.
None of the diverse systems were connected. All PCs were stand-alone: Macs, Mainframe IBM 4341 and 4381 terminals, UNIX 3B2 and 3B5 systems, and a Zenith Lab downstairs. I found a bunch of twisted-pair cable and tools in a closet and ran thousands of feet of it out to the lab and the lab downstairs. I found an abandoned IBM PS/2 computer discarded by administration when they switched to OS/2. I found a copy of Netware 286 and installed it. I found Baseband and Arcnet network cards in the closet. I didn't exactly have official permission, but they saw what I was doing and didn't ask questions. Before long, every terminal could communicate across the entire campus.