My primary career job (until I eased into writing), was as a software engineer and later Project Manager. I started out as a (confession here) EEOC aka DEI hire into a group of 10 women who were recent college graduates. I went through 3 months of training, and ended up doing software programming, not easy for someone with a decided number dyslexia. However, the programming language was COBOL, otherwise known as Common Business Language. That I could handle. My name most likely still lies unassuming in numerous programs used by still existing telecoms.
The point is, this work was hard for me. I spent hours taking home printouts of enormous computer programs, trying to find the “needle in the haystack” of whatever mistake I had made. Even harder, I think, is navigating the ocean of APPS, web-sites, portals, phone situations—on and on.
Nothing works the same way twice, it seems, and once you get it working, it changes. I’m writing this after spending a half day getting into yet another website that had changed without any notification.
I’m no dummy, but it seems like some of these new technologies make our lives harder, not easier.
Let’s don’t even talk about the situations with young kids and games and websites and bullying and body image….
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