After a discussion I was having with a good friend recently, I started wondering and contemplating my new life as a pilot, some more. I have been in the IT industry for over 10 years now. It’s what I do. It’s what I know. It’s become my life. I have acquired this mass of information and skill-sets that are completely worthless outside the industry.
Let’s be honest, pilots, or certainly all the pilots I have met, are completely IT illiterate. They simply don’t need to know how to image PCs, install servers, configure Active Directory schemas, configure WAN topologies, VLANS, hot-wire satellites in a dust storm, amongst other less interesting / more complicated things. So when I become a pilot what am I going to do with all this knowledge? What a pity you can’t sell it on. What a loss.
For Sale: IT Knowledge comprising of 10 years Microsoft experience, international exposure, 55000 user WAN input, 1st, 2nd & 3rd line support. High mileage in management roles (which is a good thing) and still in extremely good nick! Knowledge will be supplied to the highest bidder. The winning bid will also receive some construction knowledge for free if anyone cares about construction knowledge. Or not.
Up until now I have been the “Oh my son/mate/boyfriend/drinking buddy is an IT geek, I’ll ask him”. What do I become then? A has-been, an ex-geek? A NOBODY? Does this mean the midnight panic calls such as, “I have lost this really important life or death thing blah blah frikkin blah” stop? I’m pretty sure people won’t be saying, “Oh let me phone Hoox, he is a pilot, he can retrieve my really important porn or install some equally essential crap” when I am busy with other things, like having a life. Go to PC World with the rest of the population and explain your questionable hard drive contents to that spotty teenage geek behind the counter instead. I have seen quite enough thanks!
Yeah, bye bye IT world!
XXX – Thanks for everything
Love(d) you lots
Hoox!
