Maybe this should be in job discussion, but, I don't want to complain and draw attention, and it is not really a disaster. Don't take my frustration and rant too seriously. And this must be a very strange statement coming from a software engineer. But I have a problem. I hate computers.
Now, I am not really bad at my job. I can program. I am not really good either. I have been told today they will not renew my contract. It is my own fault. I have not studied computers for a while. I can update my knowledge. I am intelligent. But I am just hating computers. I did not hate computers say thirty years ago. I am 49. So about ten years ago I had the first problems with RSI. Pain in my arms, shoulders when I was working too long. So for ten years now, I am only using computers at work. If my daughter has a virus on her computer system, she calls the help desk. She knows her dad does not do computers out of office hours. I am helping her with various other stuff, like translations, application letters. She now studies something soft, and I even helped her understand her
philosophy class. I studied languages, German, to do something beneficial for my career. But when I was listening to Deutschlandfunk radio and when they started to talk about computers, I shut down the radio. My first reaction was, no, not computers again. Computers is job, computers is dissatisfied customers. Outside the office I presently avoid any contact with the computer. I am not using computers for leisure, I do sport, I watch TV, I listen to the radio. I don't use laptop, smart phone, tablets. All this has the association work, managers, customers, problems. After twenty years of working in IT, computers emotionally mean problems to me. Even the consumer goodies normal people like!
I am a bit depressed today, since they did not renew my contract, but any suggestions how to make me like computers again?
And are there any other people like me, that because they are overfed with computers at their work, the thing that had a very positive association when they were young, is beginning to become something that is now associated with problems, or am I just getting a little crazy?
Please perk me up a little. :-)