HELLO WORLD!

So here it is my first entry in my blog.  I could say this is a historic event but nah…only I care.  In fact I’m having “writers block” right now, right at this moment.  I can’t think of a single thing to say except to complain about my writers block.

OK seriously now.   My profession is, and what you might consider a Technology Generalist.  That’s basically akin to a medical general practitioner but I work in the information technology field.  I have been in the field a long time.  So long in fact the cows know me…Ok that was stupid.  Anyhow, I’ve been working in IT for more than 20 Years.

Why a generalist and not a specialist?  Well the short answer is that I had little choice.  And why didn’t I have a choice?  Because to survive, I had to constantly learn new things in different fields of technology.  Most know what a specialist is and you could consider me a computer hardware specialist.  But then that leaves out all of the other great skills I have.    Back in the late 80’s I started out writing code in QBasic (Quick Basic) and Visual Basic.  My first gig was writing scheduling and inventory software for a real estate company I was working for.  Then I moved into the world of “C” and didn’t like it that much.

Then I started getting the “oh you know about computers” comments and “my computer is doing this and I can’t fix it...can YOU fix it?”  After I fixed a couple computers word spread around the office and soon around the local real estate crowd.  So began my computer repair career.  I still wrote software from time to time but never made a lot of money from it so I stuck with the repair work.  I began to work on larger and larger systems moving from basic hardware to Windows networking to Servers and Workstations.

Since then I have directed a service and training center, owned a service and training center and provided traing and consulting services to many many indeviduals and companies.  You can check out my web site at www.technopeer.com.

I’m not going to bore you anymore with those kinds of details but just thought you might like to know.  Of course being my first blog entry, it will soon be buried in the blog archives.