Is is a personality type,
regardless of gender? Is is a geek thing that we *are* willing to tolerate
stuff that we need to puzzle out to get it to work right?
Interested in sharing your experiences, opinions, or out-and-out WAGs?
Dealing with this stuff is part of my job, and I sometimes enjoy the
challenge of figuring things out at work--if I feel that I'm not under a
lot of pressure to solve a problem quickly, and if the person who presented
the problem is not one of those people who think that being "computer
illiterate" 15+ years after computers became ubiquitous is cute.
However, that enjoyment does not extend to connectivity problems. Way too
many variables, and swapping devices/cables/connectors in and out to track
down a problem is seriously boring and often physically inconvenient to the
point of pain.
And I absolutely hate it when some personal device fails and I can't fix it
quickly. For some reason I am more likely to get emotional and even panic
if a device that I own and depend on breaks.
I sometimes get into recreational programming, but I do not consider
struggling to get hardware or software to work on my own time to be fun.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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