Y'know, I never talked about why I became interested in Networking/IT. Hahahaha, I actually do not remember in great detail but my earliest memory was in second grade. We (the students) spent about one hour each day doing activities on the computer. However, we did not go on the internet. I was seven in 1995 to put the situation in perspective. The internet barely existed in public volume. In all actuality, it existed sometime the same year for consumers. I fell in love with computers as soon as I used it. I still remember doing reports, messing around with the computer's local graphic arts program, and playing amazon trail.
I think part of the reason was at home I still had my mom's old typewriter and liked writing mock I Love Lucy scripts and the computer was more vast and unexplored, at least it felt that way to an uneducated seven year old. I remember begging my mother for a computer, knowing she could not afford one, she did next best thing, she bought me a V-Tech educational learning computer. These computers were cheap and had an interface similar to a digital watch or a graphic calculator of that time. She actually bought me two one for early elementary and one for late elementary to early middle school. I loved it; You need to understand my knowledge for learning in my younger years was insatiable although video games clashed with it from time to time. I even played two player on the math portion with other people like my mom; I had the best time.
It was not until early seventh grade, in 2000, I got my first computer a Hewlett-Packard with only 256 MB to be fair it was quite old when we bought it new. Until this day, it still sits in my basement with my second computer collecting dust. I will eventually use to practice how to install and uninstall hardware in the back of it. That is pretty much the story. Even to this day, my love for technology has not waivered, and I hope it never will.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Ironies about career
As we (the world) become more modernized, the way we live changes. Every second of every minute of every hour, day, week, month, and year people go through the realization that there is some action they perform will go the way of "old yeller". To clarify, I am referring to people's jobs, lifestyle, even the process of social interaction. In this post, however, I am going to talk about some jobs and career that are not as "booming" as they were in their heydays.
Accounting, is a great field especially when it comes to taxes. Unfortunately, due to user-oriented software no one wants to sit in an office for an hour to get taxes calculated by professionals when they could use turbotax or other related software and get it done from the safety of their home. I would know, I kind of got laid off for that exact reason.
If people liked renting video's well they were in luck, instead of traditional methods of renting DVDs, movies and videogames from the local rental shop. In modern times, people do not go to blockbuster or hollywood video to pay $4.99 to rent videos, they would use Netflix or Hulu instead. Subsequently, this would spell the end of job for the minimum wage workers at rental stores.
Newspapers are a good source of information that requires time and accuracy to ensure that articles are trustworthy. But guess what, paper and ink costs money and stopping the presses takes time to start up after halting production. The more the internet gains publicity, the more competitive the print industry gets. As of now, the physical industry is falling behind. Why pay fifty or one dollar-fifty cents when people can gather information for free and at a faster rate? In addition, there is an infinite amount of copies people can view on the internet while how many copies the press makes before they run out of ink?
Ironically while the listed jobs are disappearing over time, and were front runners in the past, tech field jobs have boomed and did not exist in large numbers until the 80's. Not only did this boom advance solutions to previous lifestyle inadequacies, these jobs provided employment for people gifted or who wanted to learn the ins and outs of tech. The biggest point to notice is the reason all the jobs listed above went obsolete due to tech, accounting with computer software, renting videos with an online variant, and newspapers with an internet business social media advantage.
Accounting, is a great field especially when it comes to taxes. Unfortunately, due to user-oriented software no one wants to sit in an office for an hour to get taxes calculated by professionals when they could use turbotax or other related software and get it done from the safety of their home. I would know, I kind of got laid off for that exact reason.
If people liked renting video's well they were in luck, instead of traditional methods of renting DVDs, movies and videogames from the local rental shop. In modern times, people do not go to blockbuster or hollywood video to pay $4.99 to rent videos, they would use Netflix or Hulu instead. Subsequently, this would spell the end of job for the minimum wage workers at rental stores.
Newspapers are a good source of information that requires time and accuracy to ensure that articles are trustworthy. But guess what, paper and ink costs money and stopping the presses takes time to start up after halting production. The more the internet gains publicity, the more competitive the print industry gets. As of now, the physical industry is falling behind. Why pay fifty or one dollar-fifty cents when people can gather information for free and at a faster rate? In addition, there is an infinite amount of copies people can view on the internet while how many copies the press makes before they run out of ink?
Ironically while the listed jobs are disappearing over time, and were front runners in the past, tech field jobs have boomed and did not exist in large numbers until the 80's. Not only did this boom advance solutions to previous lifestyle inadequacies, these jobs provided employment for people gifted or who wanted to learn the ins and outs of tech. The biggest point to notice is the reason all the jobs listed above went obsolete due to tech, accounting with computer software, renting videos with an online variant, and newspapers with an internet business social media advantage.
Memory Lane
So...I was talking to my tech teacher, Mark Hammond in regards to the next semester. He started talking to Mike and I about Networking Fundamentals and I immediately got a surge of nostalgia from the same class I took at a local college, which will not be named. I started remembering anding (subnetting a subnet mask), the command prompt, Rip v1. and v2, OSPF, binary (0's and 1's or on and off) hexadecimal (base 16, which includes A, B, C, D, E and F), octal (base 8), some of the commands like ping. I have not taken a networking class since 2010.
In addition, when I looked at my schedule for next semester, I saw Hardware and Operating systems. At first, I was taken aback at what that class could possibly be, then it dawned on me, Hardware and Operating systems is synonymous with my Maintenance of a PC class from the same school I learned it from before. That will mean remembering the motherboard, IDE SATA and ATA, Simms, Rimms, Dimms, SOdimms, hard drives, video and sound cards, The shell(desktop), kernel(software i/o translator) and HAL(hardware). Dual booting and virtualization may also be a thing. Dual Booting is installing two different operating systems on the same PC while virtualization where a program is downloaded that represents a virtual OS system and allots a specific amount of Hard drive memory to simulate the virtual OS inside a real OS. I also have not taken a computer hardware class since 2010.
To be honest, I am very excited about next semester. I only have to go to class two days of the week, although I plan on tutoring next semester. I have four classes, two of which are online, one of the classes is my Hardware and Operating systems class I will be taking the second half of the spring semester. As of now, I am aware and happy to say I have passed all of my classes. Which tops my personal best for any college year since this is my first semester, I took 6 classes, and I have A's in most of my classes. I am definitely looking forward to taking classes in the future.
In addition, when I looked at my schedule for next semester, I saw Hardware and Operating systems. At first, I was taken aback at what that class could possibly be, then it dawned on me, Hardware and Operating systems is synonymous with my Maintenance of a PC class from the same school I learned it from before. That will mean remembering the motherboard, IDE SATA and ATA, Simms, Rimms, Dimms, SOdimms, hard drives, video and sound cards, The shell(desktop), kernel(software i/o translator) and HAL(hardware). Dual booting and virtualization may also be a thing. Dual Booting is installing two different operating systems on the same PC while virtualization where a program is downloaded that represents a virtual OS system and allots a specific amount of Hard drive memory to simulate the virtual OS inside a real OS. I also have not taken a computer hardware class since 2010.
To be honest, I am very excited about next semester. I only have to go to class two days of the week, although I plan on tutoring next semester. I have four classes, two of which are online, one of the classes is my Hardware and Operating systems class I will be taking the second half of the spring semester. As of now, I am aware and happy to say I have passed all of my classes. Which tops my personal best for any college year since this is my first semester, I took 6 classes, and I have A's in most of my classes. I am definitely looking forward to taking classes in the future.
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