I used to be a field tech support and computer engineer.
One evening, while trying out a latest desktop publishing program, I put together a fun-type magazine which included all the staff, together with their various encounters and experiences on the road in the world of tech support and computer repair.
I handed a few out the following day and met with some good reviews.
Someone joked that I should write one regularly.
I laughed it off as I hadn't shown my boss.
A few months later I had a work progress review with my boss.
We got to the aims and targets for the following year and as I reeled off some of the things I wanted to do, without warning my boss opened his desk drawer and pulled out a copy of the magazine.
"Can you make this a regular thing? Say, every month?" he asked.
"Things like this are great for morale", he continued.
After a good few editions of the magazine I progressed to writing the magazine on the company's intranet system for a wider audience.
I had started blogging...
Later I went to work at a centre for people with various disabilities; predominantly cerebral palsy.
It was a great place to work with a great bunch of people and varied; one minute i could be helping a service user with their personal care and needs and later helping them with auto-fills in Excel.
I learned sign language. I was also the tech support for the whole organisation.
I got to work with all sorts of specialised accessibility
With some of the service users, I set up an in-house magazine as I wanted to get to grips with some new software before teaching it and I wanted something with which I could involve the services users on an on-going collaborative project.
Eventually that magazine turned into a blog as I thought that would be a good progression.
I then worked for the in a rehabilitation centre as the computer instructor for people with various mental health illnesses.
I worked with people from all areas of society including ex big shots in the city who had crashed (emotionally, not financially...), an ex MP, ex drug addicts and even convicted murderers.
I loved that job so much.
I learned various teaching techniques and as I was also the tech support for the departments, I had to stay 3 steps ahead of anyone else and my software skills rocketed.
I also learned a lot about myself.
I also ran the department's blog.
Then I relocated to a different part of the country and for well over a year I commuted by driving just over 200 miles a day, as I loved my job where i was still working at the mental health centre.
Eventually, common sense, commute fatigue and spending entire weekends sleeping, nudged me towards taking a job nearer to my new home.
The first job I got nearer to home was working for local government.
Now that was an eye opener.
Working for local government is a bit like being very inconvenient to your local area by digging up the busiest road, making a very deep hole, bulldozing a load of money into that hole and then requesting a larger budget for next year.
Oh, and then raising local taxes for the "work" you've carried out on the road… which will never be the same again.
Can you tell I didn't like working for local government?
I also ran the department's blog.
I then moved into the private sector; a large retail organisation.
Working in the private sector after a few short years in local government was a bit like opening your car window when one of your passenger's has farted… it was a relief to say the least.
Once again, I ran blogs for other people and organisations.
Eventually I got my current job working in the entertainment industry.
I deal with acting, television, movies and so on, on my work's various social media platforms.
I also run their blogs.
So much for my parents telling me that I would amount to nothing because all I loved to do as a kid was watch TV and movies.
It took a while but my pastime has become my job
Anyway, I digress.
The point of all this is that I have never had my own personal blog…
… until now.
I don't expect many followers here as I'll predominantly be using this blog as a release and a dumping ground for some of my busy thoughts that rattle around inside my head...
... a curation platform for articles and ideas I want to save...
... probably some rants...
... things that amuse me...
... posts about tech news...
... share tech tips and advice...
... share some of the tools and platforms that I use for business blogging and social media...
... gadget articles...
... and other things that I need to release from my spinning swirl of thoughts..
... or maybe I might just keep this as an "About Me" page.
So, feel free to join me on my journey, however I'm taking this journey whether I have any passengers or not…
... but you're more than welcome to hop aboard.
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