I can never be a true geek
Although I have over a few days listed almost everything that could qualify for geekdom, and there was quite a lot of it, I have a terrible shameful secret buried within my geeky exterior.

I am a complete and utter luddite.

I can break anything electrical that has more than one button. I went through numerous mice, keyboards, USB ports and monitors.

It took my 9 months to get my internet connection working at home properly.

I have never been allowed meccano due to my ability to go from calm and "oops just dropped it while trying to screw some tiny little nut into two slightly warped pieces of metal for the 34th time" into a raging seething spitting ball of hate and fury that lauches said meccano out of the door via at least 9 hard flat surfaces.

I hate, realy properly loathe html, unix, windows, NT, IE, I just don't get it, its all frankly utter arse. I couldn't write an sql script if you put a gun to my cats head.

I have worked in IT support for years.
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:31, 3 replies)

I hear that.
The only difference is that I can get to that point, put the thing down and walk away before I destroy it. I then go and walk around, mentally wreaking havoc on everything in sight until the red mists clear again, then go back to it.

I'm much happier working on purely mechanical things. Put me in the late 19th century and I would have been happy as can be.

As much as I use them and need them for my living- I fucking hate computers.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:41, closed)

Yep...
...that sounds like IT support to me... :-)
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:05, closed)

Sounds familiar.......
Me three.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:28, closed)