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Mar. 19th, 2002 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkOnce again, my students are taking a test and I'm updating LJ. I could be grading their final projects, but that's a fairly major undertaking that I don't want to start now. Instead, I'm thinking about something that happened on monday.
The counselor-dude & I did some chit-chat at the start of our session. I was describing how I taught myself to format DOS hard drives using a disk editor & why. He said "I'm glad you understood that".
Grr. What is so hard about this? Why do people think that computers are difficult to understand? Perfect - God no. Complicated, yes, at times. But hard?
Sigh. So we continue the conversation and he observes that I'm getting uptight each time I start talking about computers. He seems to think that I'm fed up with working with them. I'm not so sure. I know I enjoy using them. There are some things (like programming) that I don't like doing as much as others (like playing games, conversing on usenet, or catching up on my reading).
Do I still regard myself as a computer geek? I don't think that's going to change. I know more about computers than most folks and I don't like to throw away knowledge.
Do I still regard myself as a professional computer geek? No, not really.
So what do I consider my profession to be? Um...investor? :)
The counselor-dude & I did some chit-chat at the start of our session. I was describing how I taught myself to format DOS hard drives using a disk editor & why. He said "I'm glad you understood that".
Grr. What is so hard about this? Why do people think that computers are difficult to understand? Perfect - God no. Complicated, yes, at times. But hard?
Sigh. So we continue the conversation and he observes that I'm getting uptight each time I start talking about computers. He seems to think that I'm fed up with working with them. I'm not so sure. I know I enjoy using them. There are some things (like programming) that I don't like doing as much as others (like playing games, conversing on usenet, or catching up on my reading).
Do I still regard myself as a computer geek? I don't think that's going to change. I know more about computers than most folks and I don't like to throw away knowledge.
Do I still regard myself as a professional computer geek? No, not really.
So what do I consider my profession to be? Um...investor? :)
