Try again and drive it home

Iron sharpens iron, but also consider hammer on thumb brings focus to nail.

Mistakes and errors can happen (your new sore thumb), but that setback can bring new focus to the thing you are aiming for (the nail).

Try again and drive it home.

So what are the new skills? #1

So what are the new skills?  #1

When applying for a job, future employers are looking for some type of descriptive of what are your skills.  The same is true when going to school, acting as a volunteer or other task.  So besides your perceptive skills of various types, what are your computer skills?  How are you when it comes to technology? In general, what are your tech skills?

Around twenty years ago the term “computer literate” became a term that was used to describe if you could sit down at a computer and do something with it.  At the turn of the millennium, the PC explosion was on its rise and in the work place as well as home computers became the central tool to operate to perform many or most job functions.  Being computer literate became a much bigger term and a much more important skill in the work place.

Enter in 2013 and technology is infused into everything.  Apps are everywhere, and the modern smart phone has more power than a late 1980’s Packard Bell does.  Computer literate has been out run by the need to be tech savvy.  No longer does computer skills count as a bonus as everyone from pre-school toddler to the elderly us computers like previous generations used to use the radio and television. Computer skills are just assumed these days.

Back when, in the 1990’s, being able to be fluent in DOS, able to install software in Windows 3. 1, and able to work with software applications such as Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, and Netscape was  considered pretty lofty and you were probably the local guru.  If you could attach and setup a SCSI scanner and work with editing pictures, you were in the top 90%.  

Today working with spreadsheets, word processors, and using the internet are given skills.  Plug and play that works along with USB has replace the need to be a hardware guru.  Editing pictures, five year olds can crop pictures and use editors.  

So what are the new skills?  We will explore that. First enjoy Kim Komando explain what a computer is and what it can do.  We have come a long way baby.  

Making something ... making yourself....

Lately I have had several conversations with people where we were discussing how so and so has really made something out of themselves. These were all folks who had less than desirable circumstances or simply have really worked harder than everyone else around them. They have made something out of themselves.

The Occasional Guru would like to point out that successful people make themselves... they make themselves do a whole lot of things that take them past average and beyond the norm.

It may not always be pleasant, popular, or fun, but do you make yourself do the necessary to be extraordinary?

Cheers if you do.

Why Programmers Work At Night

So what schedules you: a traditional or a makers schedule?  I don't put links very often but when I do, they are important.  Click and learn...

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1