I learned that myself after the first two or three. My PHB-ette at the time would get rather touchy about it since to her it was more productive (fantasy) to go through every step. This was the same person who rather spend hours trying to boot a flaky windows box up instead of putting drives in caddies or using a Linux Live disc to lift important user data.
I had a buddy who was the same.
Another bud got him a job as sort of an assitant IT guy.
he was paid hourly and would spent night after night till the wee hours using his “Skills”.
Probably the reason most IT guys are paid salary nowadays.