You always get a visit from a house member to assist you with a computer problem that they could make figured out with some research?You ever have a friend doing an audience who called you to ask you what the individual he was interviewing was talking about?You ever feel yourself cornered at a company or get-together to explain something around your job or industry to someone, and wondered how they didn't know something that simple?
eah. Me too. When we do something for a living, when we're really into it - in short, when we're progeeks or would-be-progeeks - everyone uses us as a seed of information. It gets annoying.
We enquire in short, just what ARE Google, Yahoo, and Bing there for.But here's the thing - it's not going to change. Because people need the personal touch.We're human. We need to hear things from people, especially people we desire and refer to. That's why your family uses you for tech support, your ally in HR wants you to explain obscure chemical terms, or that guy at the party really wants you to assure him about game patches. Because people refer to information coming from other people.That's not going to change.What we progeeks can do - and aspiring progeeks can do - is use these situations:* Use them to better your communications skills with others. Trust me, it's worth the time - and in general, most of us are worse at communicating technical, professional, and specific things than we think.* Use it to see how people who aren't you think. That is incredibly valuable, especially as many of us run in professions people just don't understand. Working with those strange questions and requests you get is penetration into other people's minds. Take vantage of it - empathy is important.* Use it to get new ideas. After all, if these masses are asking questions, then there may be opportunities to take them, educate them, write for them, or get new product ideas. Find a demand and fulfill it . . .Sorry, you're stuck being the expert, my familiar and future progeeks. It's not changing, so get used to it - and see from it! Steven Savage
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