Reading Once Again

After a long time (3+ years) I have started to read again (for personal enjoyment). No more "blind" researching on computer technology and related product specifications. It's been too long since I have just truly "enjoyed" reading on an entertainment level. Ever seen the CDW commercials where people read product manuals for bedtime reading? I don't read manuals on that basis but I do read about future and current technologies in the field of computers.

However in the last few years I have finally burned out my passion. I blame people for the burn out. Most people think that dealing with computers and being employed in the IT field means little to no social skills required. Not so.

Making computers work is easy....making people understand and work is sometimes a little less than an act of God. The details to why the human factor had almost killed my passion is long and extensive.

The problems are different everyday and that's what I like about the job. I couldn't be a person that worked in a bank that sat around counting money and doing the same redundant steps everyday (I worked for a bank and learned the hard way). The people on the other hand, are redundant. Why is this? I guess most people do like to have a routine set of steps they follow everyday. For some reason if it changes they cry murder and search for any method of obtaining it again. Simple changes; as in an extra click (yes just one) can have people calling me up cursing and threatening to find someone else that can "fix" the problem.

The true problem (which caused a bigger inconvenience to that person's productivity) had been fixed however; it's the human factor to evolve that is broken. Things change in the computer world and like it or not, you will have to evolve.

Ever remember those people swearing off computers as some kind of evil machine that took jobs away from people? They couldn't see the big picture and all they saw were computers taking jobs away from people. It was "outrageous" to pick a computer of a human. The human had a family! In fact, some of those people were most likely the same people that had simple and redundant tasks. When your mom and dad said an education was important they were not lying. In today's world, more and more jobs are requiring a diverse and multitasking brain. You have to problem solve a great deal more in the percentage of the time you spend at work. Get used to it.