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May 24, 2007
Question of the Day: Is technology a passion, a job, or both, for you?
Just wondering a little bit about some of the people who visit this blog and how they relate to technology.
For me, technology is more than just a passion or a job, technology is my life. This in turn has leaded me to being able to say that "Fear, Greed and Disruption" are three of my favorite words. When I hear someone say "Disruptive Technologies", I always turn around.
Over the years I have held a number of technology related jobs. And there were plenty of times when growing pulver.com that I held technology related responsibilities.
When I think about technology, I consider myself at times an early, early adopter and while I may be amongst the first on my blog to try something out, I'm also the first to drop it if it doesn't behave as a personal change agent.
Which leads me to today's Question of the Day: Is Technology a passion, a job, or both, for you?
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The bottom line, as I see it, is that interconnected VoIP is, effectively, a non-starter: Too little value; too technically complicated; too many tar-baby legacy telecomm rules; trying to compete with a scheme that is orders of magnitude simpler and more flexible, nearly cost-free and beyond the reach of regulation or taxation. It's already dead; nothing but inertia keeps it from falling over.
Posted by: wow gold at September 5, 2008 06:01 AM
Definitely a passion. At least the kind that I'm really into.
Posted by: wow gold at September 5, 2008 05:58 AM
For me, technology is a means to an end -- a job / hobby ("jobby?") that helps me fuel my real passions: storytelling, creativity and connecting with people.
Posted by: wow gold at September 5, 2008 05:56 AM
For me, technology is a means to an end -- a job / hobby ("jobby?") that helps me fuel my real passions: storytelling, creativity and connecting with people.
Posted by: wow gold at September 5, 2008 05:55 AM
Definitely a passion. At least the kind that I'm really into.
Posted by: Clintus McGintus at May 26, 2007 02:31 AM
Technology has always been a passion for me, and, periodically, it has been a job. I've been most happy when job and passion intersect. I find that when they don't intersect, both job and passion suffer.
Posted by: Dr. Question at May 24, 2007 11:03 PM
For me, technology is...a passion, a job, an annoyance, a g-dsend, a diversion, a distraction, a wonderment, something capable of making me pull what little hair I have left out of my head, a boon to mankind, a signal of the end of mankind, a necessity, an utter fascination, a mind-blower, and a farce.
So...d) All of the above. ;-)
Posted by: KČ at May 24, 2007 04:52 PM
Wireless technology is my passion and working in the industry has been a great privilege...
Posted by: Chris Parandian at May 24, 2007 04:05 PM
Passion, hopefully leading to a job at some point!
Posted by: Annie Boccio at May 24, 2007 02:33 PM
Both for me. If I was independently wealthy my day would still be similar to what I do now. I would travel more and not put up with customers that bother me but other than that it would be the same. hmmm what did I do with those powerball tickets...
Posted by: Greg Furry at May 24, 2007 02:17 PM
Both!
Posted by: Christopher S. Penn at May 24, 2007 02:04 PM
The most fortunate people in this world have figured out how to get paid for doing what they love - thus the distinction between work and passion ceases to exist for them. I consider myself one of those fortunate people - my passion for technology makes me valuable to my employer and my employer pays me for being passionate.
Posted by: Stephen Years at May 24, 2007 01:43 PM
Like you, for me technology isn't just a passion or career - it's been an irresistible calling since that first magical moment in the Colossal Cave when I was thirteen.
What sets us alpha geeks apart from the rest of the tech crowd is the ability and drive to identify those new technologies that best meet the needs of emerging social trends and turn them into something everyone else can use.
Posted by: Lance Weber at May 24, 2007 01:16 PM
It's definitely a passion! I would love it to be my job as well but that's not gonna happen. I have been able to upgrade aspects of my job through automation and technology though.
Posted by: Bill Dey at May 24, 2007 01:12 PM
(as he spoke with a slight tongue-in-check grin)
Technology is my life, my job, my hobby; which means that my life is 80% frustration. I "see" how things should be, yet haven't the required capital to make my visions the reality for others.
More often than I can remember, I think "a frontal labotomy" might not be such a bad thing.
If all I cared about was whether or not I had my beer money, and my 1972 truck was running well enough to get myself to my laborer job everyday...well, I'd be a redneck, but a happy redneck.
But NOOOOOOO - instead, I had to be one of those people who happen to know how things work, and how things can change the world - oh damn my cursed visions!
Posted by: Michael Bailey at May 24, 2007 01:12 PM
Both, no question about it. I am a very early adopter of every new technology and I am tasked with figuring it all out in every job I have had for years. Wouldnt have it any other way.
Posted by: Jesse Chenard at May 24, 2007 01:06 PM
For me, technology is a means to an end -- a job / hobby ("jobby?") that helps me fuel my real passions: storytelling, creativity and connecting with people.
Posted by: Justin Kownacki at May 24, 2007 01:06 PM