Living out of one hotel room or another.

To say my professional career has done a "180" would be an understatement. It's been more like a "540."

When I started at CareTech, I thought I'd be doing menial jobs for quite some time, as I worked my way into the corporate structure. I by far am not doing anything major as of yet, but I have been assigned to work with CareTech teams in both Cincinnati, Ohio and Elkhart, Indiana since I started just six weeks ago.

Things are showing no sings of stopping. I already know that there is a Chicago, Illinois trip planned for me sometime soon, and there is also other teams that I may visit in other sites. Mostly for learning "the CareTech ropes" or training, but it's already so different compared to my previous jobs.

At CyberMedics, I hardly left the county that the store was founded in. I spent most of my time being lead support in-store and later on, on-site as well. Once I left the business, that quickly changed. I was just "another CareTech guy" once I got there, but there was so much more responsibility and drive at CareTech compared to CyberMedics.

It'll be interesting to see what CareTech has in store for me in the future.

Keynote: The Presentation

The presentation went well... I would have been happier with questions during the presentation or at least a little less yawning! Seriously. I suppose I understand, I used to yawn all the time during my MCSE classes with Tim Brock, even though I would be really interested in the class... Just too tired not to yawn, especially when the lights are dimmed and one has to listen to someone talk for half an hour straight!

After the presentation, we had a "hands-on" session, with three broken down old Dell Optiplex systems (PII processors, 2.0 GB HDDs, etc.) -- easy to open, no worries if they break afterward.

The only part that was truly difficult for me to deal with was how so many of the students would try to talk over one another, and it was really difficult for me to deal with two or even three students trying to ask me questions at the same time. Over-lapping voices like that yields one confused guest speaker. I suppose I should have been prepared for that, seeing as how I was speaking to a group of high school freshmen on their second day of class and not a group of college seniors on their way into their professional careers.

I thought about putting up the presentation here on IndigoJake, but there really isn't much of a reason for it... Just a bunch of pictures of the innards of an eMachine... I still hate putting text into presentations, much preferring to just use photos and sort of wing-it.

Keynote

On Thursday, I'll have to make an IT presentation "keynote" at Spring Vale Academy to a collection of 15 or so high school freshmen. It's been ages since I last did this, I'd like to do a cut-a-way presentation, but since computers aren't really layered so well, that's not going to work. Perhaps an "activated first," "activated second," strategy would be okay, but things are just so instant on computers that'll be a chore to figure out. Perhaps most important first? But if even a single component is too far out of range, a computer won't boot.

~sigh, I'll just have to do it in a seemingly random order. I think my keynote presentation is setup as motherboard, processor & cooling, hard drives, optical drives, and a few other minor things. I suppose that'll do.