'How did you learn all that stuff?'
Do you get asked that a lot? I do. People are often amazed by what computer whizes can do; from the very simple to the extremely hard.
What baffles me is that they are often uninterested in the answer to their question. I understand if somebody's eyes glaze over when I answer their question about how I fixed something, but they are never satisfied with what I tell them- its too mundane.
There are three things that helped me learn how to work in all the aspects of IT I find myself in.
A) Experience
B) College teaching me little about real world IT problems, but still teaching me how to learn and
C) The attitude that I can find out what I need to know.
Because that is not enough for people that ask me the question, I have complied a list of 5 ways, ways how I learned IT that may sound a bit more exciting...
1. Star Trek. It turns out computers really can talk to you and they tell me what to do. What? You don't hear the voices?
2. I have a photographic memory. I got bored in high school one day and flipped through every computer manual I could find. Things just kind of snow balled from there.
3. During my study of computer sciences in college, I just couldn't get things right. My computer programs erased hard drives. I fried every motherboard I tried to work on. Then one day my professor was working on an experiment involving gamma radiation. I wandered into his lab at the wrong time. The resulting explosion somehow grafted into my brain the ability to instantly diagnose any computer problem.
4. I'm a juggler. Science has proven that learning to juggle improves your brain and thought processes. My juggling has improved to the point that I can now instantly learn and do anything, even computers. (Everything in this point except the previous sentence is true.)
5. Technically, I won't learn anything about computers until 2113. Oh, did I mention that I'm a time traveller?
These days, I find it best to just smile like it's a secret and I can't tell it (leaving it a mystery).
It works.
What baffles me is that they are often uninterested in the answer to their question. I understand if somebody's eyes glaze over when I answer their question about how I fixed something, but they are never satisfied with what I tell them- its too mundane.
There are three things that helped me learn how to work in all the aspects of IT I find myself in.
A) Experience
B) College teaching me little about real world IT problems, but still teaching me how to learn and
C) The attitude that I can find out what I need to know.
Because that is not enough for people that ask me the question, I have complied a list of 5 ways, ways how I learned IT that may sound a bit more exciting...
1. Star Trek. It turns out computers really can talk to you and they tell me what to do. What? You don't hear the voices?
2. I have a photographic memory. I got bored in high school one day and flipped through every computer manual I could find. Things just kind of snow balled from there.
3. During my study of computer sciences in college, I just couldn't get things right. My computer programs erased hard drives. I fried every motherboard I tried to work on. Then one day my professor was working on an experiment involving gamma radiation. I wandered into his lab at the wrong time. The resulting explosion somehow grafted into my brain the ability to instantly diagnose any computer problem.
4. I'm a juggler. Science has proven that learning to juggle improves your brain and thought processes. My juggling has improved to the point that I can now instantly learn and do anything, even computers. (Everything in this point except the previous sentence is true.)
5. Technically, I won't learn anything about computers until 2113. Oh, did I mention that I'm a time traveller?
These days, I find it best to just smile like it's a secret and I can't tell it (leaving it a mystery).
It works.
posted by Aka @ 1:01 PM
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1 Comments:
Great information and very helpful.
I like how you mention attitude as being part of the process. I've learned that makes all the difference.
Thanks!
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