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Quote from 12345blitzkrieg

i find it odd. My school in australia offers IST but its all bloody animation,photoshop. Now I am doing 2 electives that are essentially the same. Multimedia and IST. I am one of the few technologically capable people in my school and the number gets smaller each year. No one cares how it works. for example. "OMFG YOU BUILT A COMPUTER? DID IT TAKE MONTHS?!?!?!?!!?" me: "no a few hours.....".

This is just a superiority complex. Do you know how houses are built? If somebody says they built a house by hand I doubt they'd respond by basically spitting on you and saying "it's easy you just need to learn how". There is NO REASON to give a rat's ass how a PC is built, and honestly the attitude that people should know these things es me off to no end, because its only the person making that argument making themselves feel superior.

A plumber is hired to fix plumbing problems. They do not go around telling people "hey, you should learn how to plumb" It would put them out of the job.
A Contractor is hired to build a house, or other buildings. They do not go around telling people "hey, you should learn how to contract building work and apply for applicable permits". It would put them out of the job.
Electricians are hired to wire buildings and fix existing building wiring. They do not go around telling people "hey, you should learn how to be an electrician" because it would put them out of the job.

I could go on. Basically you have people that like what they do selling their services to other people that don't do that. a Contractor essentially is an organizer, in that they hire people like plumbers and electricians. a Plumber might be able to fix their own plumbing, but they are going to be calling an electrician if their wiring has problems, and vice versa.

And yet, there are people that build computers for others, or fix computer problems- that seem to think this is something everybody should know how to do. They are basically insisting on making themselves redundant. People bring their computers to them to get them fixed, Not learn about cookies or how to clear their browser cache or how they should be following a backup schedule. Do your Job and don't pull the "I'm better than you" approach. It's the difference between "well, you wouldn't have this problem if you weren't stupid enough to click a phishing link" rather than "If you want I can tell you a few tips to help avoid this problem in the future". Being a insufferable douche just makes people WANT to learn how to do it so they don't have to deal with an insufferable douche.

The funniest part is I knew a IT tech that owned a small shop. I forget why I was there, but I watched some poor old woman get reamed out for something stupid like "why did you waste my time with this problem I just had to clean your browser cookies rabble rabble rabble why are people so stupid"... basically, the insufferable douche I described. Even after the woman left (probably to find somebody to outsource their IT requirements to that isn't an insufferable douche) he was still mumbling to himself.

You know what happened? Well, I don't know. The shop is gone. Presumably people that went to that guy for services didn't like giving money to somebody for a service and being told they were idiots, so they went elsewhere. It's funny because they didn't realize they were driving customers away.

That's part of the problem. You get IT techs that feel so superior, they don't realize that they are expendable. If a customer finds you to be an insufferable douchebag, they can find somebody who isn't that will provide the same services.

Certain things about society might be bad (ie facebook, snapchat, etc.), but ultimately technology is for bettering the world.