Google is awesome.
Don't know how to do something?
Google it.
A lot of the time you can cobble something together with Internet Knowledge plus your own expertise.

Certainly earned me kudos more than once after I've pulled something off that was over-and-above my role at the time.
(Scritty Bakerman., Thu 27 May 2010, 15:02, 1 reply)

Agreed.
Ive become somewhat lazy in my job. If it takes too much effort to try and figure it. Google it. Fix it. Forget it.
10 years ago we'd have stacks of books in the office for reference. We'd keep our own knowledgebase database.

As long as you have an understanding of technology you dont need to know how to fix everything, or even try to know. If not sure, google it.
(Miggyman, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:33, closed)

Same here!
I've been in the business for 11 years and to some extent I miss the challenge of working it out myself but when time it a factor Google is your friend! ;-)
( JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:42, closed)

don't you find that you just know how and why its wrong?
I was doing the IT thing for ages and got out of it. Now I get to watch IThelp fish about on my machine. No access rights to help myself - just tell them what needs doing after a while.
(waxdart hello., Thu 27 May 2010, 17:35, closed)

Ah, the I.T. 6th sense!
I agree, you get a feeling for it. It always annoys the other half when I say 'Of course, I'm just guessing' and end up being right 9 times out of 10 (I'm sure she secretly despises me for it though!) ;-)
( JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:26, closed)