Why it sometimes sucks to be a geek! →
Posted on January 5, 2009 in Life with 2 comments.
I tweeted about this earlier today.
It sometimes can really suck to be a geek. Why? Well because everybody you know, including the older grandparent generation (99% of which simply cannot grasp how to use a computer) calls on you when they have a computer problem!
You are the goto guy (or gal) when all computer hell breaks loose. The person who wont let them down, just this one more time. The person who must go out of their way (even on Christmas day) to fix a faulty laptop, or remove a virus from a windows 98 machine, which by the way doesn’t even read a usb stick with the anti-virus software that you need to install on it.
Being the kind hearted geek that you are, you can never say no. Yes, they do sometimes pay you, but way too often it is below minimum wage and other times it is in the form of tea and biscuits.
Oh and when something goes wrong, it is often you that takes the blame. Geek X didn’t install this and thats why I got the virus. Hey, most of the time the “viruses” are actually their inability to use the computer. How often have you heard “I can’t do x, I think I have a virus”… *sigh*
This my fellow geek is why it can sometimes suck to be you.
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My name is Matt. I am an adventurous web and mobile developer and this is my blog where I like to share my thoughts. 
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