1 story from Experience
Many times during the 5,421,383 Total Career IT Tickets I had to to solve, there were people that did not want me there. They were full of anxiety, pissed off there computer wasn’t working and it was almost always under pressure of an upcoming deadline. There was always only two outcomes, either I’d solve the problem very quickly and they would feel relieved and grateful or I’d find a workaround till I could research the problem more when they had more time for a deeper diagnostic and they would feel semi-relieved but still a little perturbed.
Tech frustrates a lot of people sometimes. Even us Technologists can get frustrated by it sometimes. However, over the long term, people tend to frustrate us way more than Technology does. You can’t easily fix people as you would a computer. Emotional Baggage and Irrational fears cloud our judgement on dealing with our fellow man sometimes. But the important part is that you try.
Its easy to give up on humans most of the time and stick to the digital world more. There is a lot of very addictive media online that doesn’t judge you or a ton of technology that you can easily manipulate to do what you want to do, but human connection is what gives our lives purpose. It gives us the satisfaction we need from the growth we develop communicated and interacting with humans. We’ve mastered Technology, so lets try to work out how we can use our skills to better help humans and our communication with them in general. They need us just as much as we need them, especially for us to always remind them if they’ve turned it off and on again first.
2 Ideas from Me
Business is an interesting concept for me. Business is just systems for making money and bringing value to a customer. Since I’m a tech guy, I view it from that frame of mind. Many Businesses fail, and not because their product isn’t good, it could be their marketing isn’t great or their tech needs work. Us technicians are great at doing the work required to run a business, but if you want to advance to the next level, you need to learn to have the vision for a business, you must work on the Business and not in it.
If there was one aspect of your life that could be instantly fulfilled for the rest of your life, what would it be? Would you never go hungry? Would you have a big place to live? Would you have an infinite amount of money to buy all the tech you want for yourself? You literally can have any of those things, if you exchange them for some type of value. You are valuable, everyone is in a certain discipline. Finding that one thing you do best and magnifying it can also magnify your resources 100x.
3 quotes from others
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” – Herman Melville
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” – William James
“The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi