How has technology changed your job?

This is an excellent question. Technology for lack of a better word has been my job for much or all of my 2& year career. I started out in Information Technology (IT)and worked many facets of that industry for the better part of 26 years. I continue today now as a Technical Writer, utilizing the skills that helped IT to document how-tos, operating manuals, and user guides.

Technology’s ebbs and flows has made my professional live somewhat interesting. Personally and professionally I have seen as and supported/worked in the following operating systems since their inception: DOS (Disk Operating System), Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups (3.11), Windows 95 OSR1, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, NT (New Technology) 3.51, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, Windows 9, Windows 10, and Windows 11. The challenges and changes brought about with each iteration always made life interesting to say the least.

Now there’s team which I use for my professional technical writing (my day job now). Where everything is in the cloud (stored on a remote file sever accessible from anywhere provided you can login to the network and the VPN (Virtual Private Network) tunnel. The beauty of this environment is that it allows me to work from home or anywhere really.

In conclusion, I feel that technology has forced me to be eternally frosty and sharp. This has brought about many changes and the need to constantly adapt and master everything new to help others with far less patience than I have. This isn’t easy, but wouldn’t life be boring if everything stayed static? Mine would be.

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