From the age of around five I have been using a computer, of course there were a few mild mishaps at an age so young, such as when I stood on the CD drive and snapped it off or when the screen came crashing to the ground. But I have learnt from these experiences and from that I have gained more knowledge so that now at the age of 14 I know not to stand on the CD drive and not to use the screen as a step ladder. But learning from small things like that has allowed me to become confident enough to build my own computer and almost secure me a position in the IT industry.

But for a majority of people a Pentium Processor is completely irrelevant to their understanding of computers as is a Hard Drive and Graphics Card etc. And sometimes I wish I was one of those people who didn’t have to know about technology and just lived life easily and relaxed but life isn’t like that, we are all here for a reason and we all have a purpose, but that’s a whole other story that I will rant on about some other time. Back to technology;

One great thing about computers and the Internet is money. It is a huge industry and one of the main way users earn money off of the internet is through advertising. I built a blog/website about a specific computer that I own, www.imacupdate.blogspot.com and on the site you will notice there are adverts. Every time someone clicks on one of them I get paid. Simple as that, and that is one of the reasons people are quitting their jobs to become these so called ‘Internet Entrepreneurs’ expecting to make millions from doing nothing. It just doesn’t work; it takes weeks if not months to even get it started and you may still only earn small change. I won’t say how much I earn but if you are interested please email me at the address at the bottom of the page.

Now onto the problems with computers, it’s always when you most need to use it. You need to e-mail some really important work to someone or need to retrieve a file from your computer. Then you hear the dreaded beeps just seconds after you turn on the computer and an error message saying ‘Warning, major system error…’ Oh fiddle, what can you do, the list is endless, restart, Ctrl + Alt + Del, off and on at the wall, check all the connections (by the way, in my experience, it has never been because of a loose connection otherwise it wouldn’t turn on, duhh), the list never ends. Finally you give up and take it to your local computer repair shop. They will then keep it for a number of months because the employees are too busy fantasizing over the new 8GB RAM module that has just been released.

Once you finally get it back in 2013 you are only too pleased to find that it has been repaired and everything is working again. Only when you get home to find that your Hard Drive has been wiped clean, all of your Photos, Music and Videos are gone. You then spend an hour cursing down the telephone at the manager and the best answer the can come up with is something you don’t understand. You then accept defeat and retire to bed.

Computers can cause more stress in a few hours than anything else can in a lifetime. Therefore, only buy one if you need one. I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it.