Blogging – how not to do it.

Why oh why do these classes never finish when they say they will?
I’ve said before that I don’t mind these things, I enjoy learning about the tools that I’ll help use and troubleshoot I just hate it though when we lose 30 minutes due to incompetence as people can not spell the relevant sql commands. Maybe I’m being to harsh but I feel that if you’re on these courses you should have some competency. I’m all for training up people and ensuring they have the skills they need to do their job but I am a follower of the ‘people are born with talents’ school of psychological thought. That you don’t master something just by practicing it, you are born with an innate leaning towards those skills. Yes this niches certain ppl and cubby-holes them but then again Picasso couldn’t make violins and Stradivarius couldn’t paint. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t try and it isn’t to say you must never do something your bad at (but then again if your a talented surgeon you may want to think twice before becoming a porn star or construction worker – not that they aren’t worthwhile jobs, porn stars can be argued to make as valuable a contribution to society as surgeons or construction workers). That is not to say you are born a master at your art, it’s still a skill but you can damn well bet that a person with natural talent will reach higher in their art than someone with no talent after the same amount of practice – chances are they will also complete that practice in a shorter time too. It can take a lifetime to find your talent, some people never do. I’m damn good with computers, bloody awful with languages but I have no idea how good I am at farming – I could grow crops and farm animals like Caine and Abel or I could be the worst disaster to farming since the Christian God flooded the world and forgot to snorkel the animals…. As for being a porn star, well that’s for the women who know me that well to comment on.

So in true poor styling, I’ll answer the question I posed at the start of my post. These classes don’t finish when expected because there are people on it who’s primary strength is not programming. Its not that they are incompetent, despite what I said earlier but merely because they are having to work harder to get the same level of understanding as those of us who have an innate ability to comprehend torrents of technobabble at a high rate of input – you can tell I’m a geek just from that sentence. Due to their lack of innate skill we have to move slower, which – as I’m a person who loves schedules, loves being early or on time and gets downright irritable if I’m even a minute or two late and really hates moving at speeds less than my own. Yes I’m impatient when it comes to my art but the paradoxical thing is I’m as patient as humanly possible. Thank the gods I’m not a social worker, psychiatrist or any other sort of profession where my art is people yet (I do want to be a manager one day…).
In any case if your brain hasn’t melted yet from reading this and you feel like debating the point with me then feel free.

David