Just a bit of randomness

     It's been WAY too long since I have felt the urge to write in this thing. So long indeed that I almost forgot that I even had it really. Why did I have it in the first place? To help render things from within my head onto "paper" as it were.

     There are times where I feel like my career path has taken me to a place that tasks my patience and integrity. It used to be fun to "fix" a computer. A lot of the time just to see if a broken computer can be brought back to life again. Which if it were JUST that bit, it probably would still be fun. But sadly, its not the computers that tend to be the problem of late, but more the "user" of said computers.

     I'm pretty sure that I spend the majority of my time teaching people how to use a computer than fixing anything that is considered wrong with it. Nine times out of ten the problems that get reported are not knowing the simplest functions. And of course its ALWAYS a life-or-death issue that needs to be addressed immediately.

    Of course the biggest issue I tend to struggle with is to not belittle the user with their trivial issue that just HAS to be a computer problem. Once or twice with a simple issue is no problem, but when the reports get up into the double digits (or higher) sometimes the same issue over and over, it gets quite difficult for me to reign in my inner asshole.

     And it doesn't make it any better when the you have lost almost all trust in the operating system's updating practices. When you are told that you need to make sure that the computer is fully updated and patched, but the same updates and patches cause more issues than what it supposedly fixes. One would think that a paid operating system would be the best option out there, which unfortunately isn't the case.

     The funny thing about capitalism is that when a free operating system version gets a bit too close to replacing the ONLY paid version out there, the money made from the paid corporation sues the free version out of existence. I'm pretty sure that is what helps make the jobs that we do to keep things running with any form of consistency just THAT much more difficult. As well as making those of us ponder why we are even still in the field.