Miles above the mountains and plains?
Last week we helped Kerri's Grandmother move into a retirement village. It got me thinking what it must be like to move out of the home you've lived in for most of your life. Hopefully the move will be good for her. I'm a believer that you cease to live if you stop looking forward, and this move is an opportunity for her to do that.
Recently i've been given the opportunity to work with new technology at my workplace. I have rediscovered the passion for learning! The hardest part was battling the initial frustration which one experiences at the beginning of the learning curve. Since any small amount of frustration may trigger an anxiety attack, i had to try to hold back and not put pressure on myself to learn quickly. Thankfully i've improved to the point that i can work very solidly all day, although i soon learned that my post last Sunday was probably written too early! I've still got a long way to go before i can say i'm truly over this illness.
My good mate Scott, now living in Melbourne, is also looking at something new. When our German friends Holger and Nina decided to return back home, i thought we had lost our only opportunity to have a private flight service. However Scott has just declared that he too has caught the flying bug! If he sticks with it then perhaps i will need to persuade him to move back to Sydney :-)
Recently i've been given the opportunity to work with new technology at my workplace. I have rediscovered the passion for learning! The hardest part was battling the initial frustration which one experiences at the beginning of the learning curve. Since any small amount of frustration may trigger an anxiety attack, i had to try to hold back and not put pressure on myself to learn quickly. Thankfully i've improved to the point that i can work very solidly all day, although i soon learned that my post last Sunday was probably written too early! I've still got a long way to go before i can say i'm truly over this illness.
My good mate Scott, now living in Melbourne, is also looking at something new. When our German friends Holger and Nina decided to return back home, i thought we had lost our only opportunity to have a private flight service. However Scott has just declared that he too has caught the flying bug! If he sticks with it then perhaps i will need to persuade him to move back to Sydney :-)
posted by Webby at 11:07 pm
3 Comments:
It is lots of fun playing with new technologies. It can be frustrating, though, when things are not properly documented, or if they have been designed by idiots. Take MS-Windows for example. (alright, maybe I'm just kidding!)
Actually, it's also frustrating when the technology is used by idiots, because then you have to try and explain it to them, which is often like beating your head against a brick wall.
Then again, it's also frustrating when the technology is sold by idiots, who have no concept of what the technology is supposed to do. You then have to "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear", and somehow get the idiots who designed the technology to fix it so that the idiots who use it think that it does do what the idiots who sold it to them promised.
So actually, don't sweat too much over the frustrations of the initial learning curve -- there's still so much more to look forward to!
;-)
Sounds like you need a holiday :-)
I got over 60 days of leave saved up -- I guess that makes me the biggest idiot of all!
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