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!
The Pete
May 16, 2008 at 4:33 pm
No matter what you do, you will never be an ex-geek.
It just doesn’t work like that.
You will always be the guy who knew or knows something about computers.
Another Hook
May 16, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Pete I am SO glad you said that. He tells me how to do, even when he doesn’t know NOW !! Then he has the gall to say “Oh my son……… etc ” How about an ex-son ??
Seriously, tho Hoox, the way the world is going, (or maybe is already) guys like you are always one step ahead of the rest in whatever you do, if not for anything else than the completely logical mind pattern you geeks develop. (I am not sure I believe I actually said that!)
HooX
May 16, 2008 at 6:17 pm
TP – So what you are saying is that friends and family to date will always know. It’s people I meet from hereon out should be kept in the dark about hidden geeky talents. That will at least minimize the support. That way I can pick and choose! 8)
AH – So what you are saying is that friends and family think I am smarter than them? Ex-Son? That’s a little harsh but I will let you have that dig since you did pay for my IT courses! There’s a downside to gaining logical thought process and that’s discovering that common sense is not really that common!
funnybroad
May 18, 2008 at 6:11 am
“… all the pilots I have met, are completely IT illiterate…”
Hmmmm…. maybe there’s a lucrative niche somewhere in there for you… think about it….
payne
May 19, 2008 at 7:21 am
you can teach me how to download porn? helping your friends download porn has a sence of omnipotence.
HooX
May 19, 2008 at 6:06 pm
FB – Im not sure where to plug in the keyboard and mouse in the dashboard. You think I can make some money if I find out how? Hey but Flight Simulator has already been done. I’ll just have to keep on thinking!
Payne – Sure thing babes… Just give me a heads up on your preferred genre of porn and I will show you the way! 8)