#129 Technically Competent

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Being good with technology is like being the guy who owns a pickup truck; everybody wants to be your best friend when thereâs heavy lifting to be done. Face it, the question “Can you help me move?” is substantially the same as “Can you get my internet working?” The only real difference is that when you help somebody move, they’re more likely to provide pizza and pop at some point during the experience.

As the tech-guy, I’ve been called upon to rebuild computers, hook-up satellite television systems, and program VCR clocks so they stop flashing twelve. Once word of my mad skillz gets out in the neighborhood, it’s open season on my free time. If I lived next door to CERN, I would have been asked to help debug the Large Hadron Collider.

After all these years of being drafted to solve other people’s problems, it feels good to finally speak the truth and say … I don’t mind.

Really.

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NOTES: 

• At the end of the episode, I mentioned Tom Johnson’s technical writing blog. You can read the entry I mentioned at:
  http://tinyurl.com/5lvovr
• The voice coach we both went to is Scott Shurian. You can find him at:
  http://voscott.com/