In this job – computer repair in case you’d forgotten – you tend to see a lot of progress bars. Those little blue or green lines that slowly, sometimes oh so slowly, mark the progress of whatever task you are doing at the time.
Sometimes they fly by, sometimes they are slow but don’t hog the system so I can continue working in other areas. Other times the client is sat there, quite happy to chat, whether it be to discuss their business and any networking opportunities or just put the world to rights.
But there are times when there is nothing to do but watch that bar crawl across the screen. My moral code prevents me from doing other work when the client is paying for my time, so I need something to prevent brain implosion. There may be a couple of quick emails I can respond to if they don’t require too much thought but, most of the time, it is twitter that comes to the rescue.
The people I follow are a constant source of useful links for me to read, amusing one-liners or local news. And so it was in the early hours of this morning, as I coaxed a machine back to life in a lonely, darkened room in East London, that I was tweeting #lessambitiousfilms and the merits of old CRT televisions.
Thank you twitter… I think therefore I tweet.
Oh, and thank goodness for good online backup too – otherwise I’d still be there!
A Microsoft Certified Professional with many years of large corporate experience and training, he now focuses on helping small businesses make the most of their IT.
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