New Starts

I've had this blog for many years now, but I originally started it as a place to post old comics that a buddy and I had come up with, but I've since changed the name, removed the old comic posts, and will now be posting stories of my time working in IT.

I currently work as a counter tech at a large chain store, one I'm proud to be a part of. It's a lot of fun, but it's also hard work. I meet new challenges every day, encounter new names for standard hardware constantly, and always have a new story to take home with me. If I were to post a single story a day, I'd have to retire from this job before I'd run out of stories, and even then I'd likely die first.

I will soon be returning to school to earn my degree in Computer Science. I'm hoping to focus on programming, as that has been a passion of mine for a time, though unfortunately, for someone of my young age of 22, my skills are a bit lacking. Within the new school I will be attending, I have already obtained a job in the IT department, which is great, because then I'll continue to have stories to tell. I do hope to make my classmates aware of this blog, because I hope to keep it lighthearted and I want them to know I will be making fun of them on occasion, though, as with my job, I will anonymize all info about my classmates and school. Don't want somebody to misunderstand my intentions and complain to someone.

Although I am young and quite knowledgeable with computers, I have also had to work with rather elderly people on a consistent basis (read: all the time), and so I have learned how to explain things that they don't understand in a language that makes sense to them. Given that, I hope to make this a blog that is enjoyable by everyone who comes to visit, techie or not.

On occasion, because I do hope to draw in an audience of non-technically inclined people, I will explain certain concepts to make them more easily understood. I feel I have a particularly great advantage in this area as I grew up in the south originally, and besides blessing people's hearts while telling them how terrible they are, I also learned how to speak in analogies. This warning I give to IT personnel of all flavors because I will be explaining such things as hard drives and PSUs to be understood by the layman so that they can also enjoy the story, and to make this blog semi-educational. In fact, if I explain a piece of hardware or a process in a post, I will be marking it as "Educational", so that if anyone wants to go through and learn a little bit about their computer, they certainly can.

Finally, I leave you all with this: Please have fun here. I'm not here to make fun of people because I'm a mean, spiteful person. I'm here to make fun of people because I happen to be knowledgeable in an area that many people are not. If I went to a mechanic (and fair warning, I use mechanic analogies a lot without knowing much about cars), I'm sure I would seem to them what almost everyone seems like to me. Someone who just doesn't know something that I do.

P.S. If you go to anyone to have your computer fixed/looked at/worked on, please don't mention that you aren't tech literate, tech savvy, or whatever the new phrase is these days. I get maybe one person a day who doesn't say it, because somehow everyone thinks they're original for saying it. It's really my only pet peeve, and I can't publicly say anything. So just tell the person you're asking for help what your issue is, and let them try to find what level of communication you need to be on.