Why do people at community college find it amazing...

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

 

[sourceninja]

Try teaching the classes. I had a student bring me his computer from home to 'fix' after he tried to put vista on it.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
As a former community college student, your lack of ability to understand that one sample is not enough to determine a trend in thousands of people and your horrible grasp of sentence structure scare me.

That's because I'm typing in improper sentence structures. .

 

[Ricemarine]

Updated...

Cookies?...

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
When a 16 year old student going to community college for college and high school credit (just to answer why I'm even going to one) find it totally exciting when for my introduction I said I like to build computers? ... Damn I knew I shouldn't have said that in class.

Because then this woman with an 11 year old child (age reference, she didn't bring the child) asked me about bittorrent...


Is it THAT amazing?

Update: Apparently the woman was so happy to discover the world of bittorrent from me, her 11 year old daughter is baking me cookies... ...

:camera:'s of said woman!

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
When a 16 year old student going to community college for college and high school credit (just to answer why I'm even going to one) find it totally exciting when for my introduction I said I like to build computers? ... Damn I knew I shouldn't have said that in class.

Because then this woman with an 11 year old child (age reference, she didn't bring the child) asked me about bittorrent...


Is it THAT amazing?

Update: Apparently the woman was so happy to discover the world of bittorrent from me, her 11 year old daughter is baking me cookies... ...

:camera:'s of said woman!

AGREE!

shens!!! your 16 talking to older ladies, shens shens!!

TTIWWP

haha, just kidding, but I know a lot of PSEO kids, 16-18 years old.

I think I broke/built my first pc when i was 8...it was fun.

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I stopped telling people that im interested in computers. No way in hell am I getting into the "can you take a look at my computer" again.

Not only that, but "the guy who can fix her computer" is the EXACT OPPOSITE of "the guy who is her boyfriend".

I am a staunch advocate of the "I fix your hardware, you fix mine" policy when it comes to fixing women's computers.

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

1 hour @300k/yr > 1 hour @ 50k/year

It's not worth their time if you will do it for them. I could easily change my own oil, but I would rather pay $15 for someone else to do it.

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

1 hour @300k/yr > 1 hour @ 50k/year

It's not worth their time if you will do it for them. I could easily change my own oil, but I would rather pay $15 for someone else to do it.

Yep - they have more important things to do than peon grunt work.

 

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

just for the record you can be anything you want on the intrnet.....rofl.....hahahaaaa

Don't worry guys, he trolls the same way in P&N.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I stopped telling people that im interested in computers. No way in hell am I getting into the "can you take a look at my computer" again.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[z0mb13]

YARRRR got to teach em young!

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
When a 16 year old student going to community college for college and high school credit (just to answer why I'm even going to one) find it totally exciting when for my introduction I said I like to build computers? ... Damn I knew I shouldn't have said that in class.

Because then this woman with an 11 year old child (age reference, she didn't bring the child) asked me about bittorrent...


Is it THAT amazing?

Update: Apparently the woman was so happy to discover the world of bittorrent from me, her 11 year old daughter is baking me cookies... ...

:camera:'s of said woman!

AGREE!

shens!!! your 16 talking to older ladies, shens shens!!

TTIWWP

haha, just kidding, but I know a lot of PSEO kids, 16-18 years old.

I think I broke/built my first pc when i was 8...it was fun.

You guys think women with 11 year old children going to community college is hot?...

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

1 hour @300k/yr > 1 hour @ 50k/year

It's not worth their time if you will do it for them. I could easily change my own oil, but I would rather pay $15 for someone else to do it.

Exactly. If I'm making 300k a year, I'm not going to want to spend anytime doing something that the guy making 50K could do for me no matter how simple it is.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

To be fair, can you do any of the work they do to make their 300K a year?
Also, does your company give the scientists keys for office? I know where I worked last summer we had to get i.t. to do that stuff, because they had all the cds and keys.

 

[FoBoT]

:camera:'s?

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: cRazYdood

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Baked
Just for the record, I fix computer for engineers. Yes, even the computer science engineer.

same here.. literally rocket scientists and they cant install office 2003... with a custom built user freindly interface that does everything automatically for them..

yet they make 300+ k per year and I make 50k... wtf..

To be fair, can you do any of the work they do to make their 300K a year?
Also, does your company give the scientists keys for office? I know where I worked last summer we had to get i.t. to do that stuff, because they had all the cds and keys.

QFT. Don't complain about a help desk job being low pay when you can't do the job of the person that makes tons more $$$ than you but not doing a tech job.

For instance i can say Im knowledgeable enough to build my own computers, networking and everything, but just because I know it doesn't mean I have to do it when there's a whole help desk at work. in addition, when you're not given admin rights to do anything on the work computer and hacking it is a violation of the computing policies, well, that's why we have the people making 50k "fixing the issues".

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I stopped telling people that im interested in computers. No way in hell am I getting into the "can you take a look at my computer" again.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. People think it's amazing that I could build a pc, I could probobly get a complete noob to build a pc, it really isn't hard. It requires no real knowledge about computers, just what parts fit into what. Almost like putting together a puzzle, quite fun though.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I stopped telling people that im interested in computers. No way in hell am I getting into the "can you take a look at my computer" again.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. People think it's amazing that I could build a pc, I could probobly get a complete noob to build a pc, it really isn't hard. It requires no real knowledge about computers, just what parts fit into what. Almost like putting together a puzzle, quite fun though.

yup it's enough of a hassle to be looking at everythin about computers for my relatives. a few months ago my gf told my neighbor that I'm in the IT field (when I'm more of a IS based consultant), and then that said neighbor asked me a bunch of questions about Office. well I told her to never tell anyone that ever again, tell people I'm in investment banking or something.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
in general i find the average person's computer knowledge is increasing constantly. you really have to be stupid these days not to have a basic understanding.

The increasing proliferation of viruses and spyware tells me otherwise.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's the earth. And on earth,
1) All Asian dudes are math-and-science geeks

fixed

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I stopped telling people that im interested in computers. No way in hell am I getting into the "can you take a look at my computer" again.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. People think it's amazing that I could build a pc, I could probobly get a complete noob to build a pc, it really isn't hard. It requires no real knowledge about computers, just what parts fit into what. Almost like putting together a puzzle, quite fun though.

yup it's enough of a hassle to be looking at everythin about computers for my relatives. a few months ago my gf told my neighbor that I'm in the IT field (when I'm more of a IS based consultant), and then that said neighbor asked me a bunch of questions about Office. well I told her to never tell anyone that ever again, tell people I'm in investment banking or something.

Investment banking? Great! Let me tell you about this business model I've been developing....