Funny side-effect of my job - I find myself working on tech things I'd never even heard of until, et voile, there I am waist-deep in them. CNAMES, A-records, Terradata, ODBC, whaaa?
I'm like a non-native speaker with a dictionary, finding that each definition needs several more look-ups before it can be understood. Except without a dictionary.
So it's more like someone reading a book in a completely different language with some English words peppered in, trying to make sense of the alien words based on the context in which they appear. I feel a little victory kick every time I figure out a new term, though the more logical part of me wonders why I couldn't just use that brain space for Spanish or German or something more fun than Nerd-ese.
But, but, but, today a tech guy walking me through some obscure database setup process told me how impressed he was with my, and I quote, 'intuitive tech skill.' He wanted to know if I had coding experience. Right. I'm barely logical by human standards; if I tried telling a computer what I wanted, the poor thing would crash in despair.
Still, despite the occasional victory kicks, I've been feeling like a frog trying to fly... so his comment totally made my day. Geekjoy maximum.
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