Module 4

Jacob Ready

1/29/2012        

Module 4

IT Job Interview

Module 4

     I conducted an interview with my friend back in Boise Idaho.  He works on the geek squat at the best buy that I live by.  I first started off with a brief explanation of the class that I am in and he thought it was very interesting how we have finally decided to come into the reality and decide that we all need to understand that we are being taken over by technology and that we are losing jobs to a computer.  After briefing him on what I was doing I told him that I was interviewing him on his job and what it all entails. He explained to me that he really enjoys his job and loves feeling the satisfaction of being to help people every day.  He explains how some days he gets a little frustrated with the occasional grandparents trying to fix their computers.  He said the best part of his job is always learning something new every day and continually gaining experience with computers.  I thought about what he had said about gaining experience and asked him if this experience would help him with future jobs.  He told me that this job is probably the best thing that he could possibly have right now with the technology expansion that we are having.  He explained how it helps him stay ahead of the curve and every company needs a computer tech. and technology is the new and upcoming jobs. 

     The second part of the interview I decided to compare it to the book that we have been reading and ask him what he thought about what was going on.  I told him a few of the interesting facts that I had learned from the book.  He told me that he isn’t surprised at all about what is going on.  He said he knew that other countries would be catching up with us.  I asked him if he had heard anything out of the ordinary that I might now have heard from my book and he said that he had actually read the book that we are reading in class and said that the world is flat is one of the most eye opening books he has ever read and that is part of the reason that he works for the geek squad today.  The book inspired him to become involved in what the world is becoming and to try and learn what he can so that we don’t fall behind.   I learned a lot from my friend and after the interview I realized that I am learning more everyday about how technology and computers are changing our world in ways that would have absolutely blown Americans away ten years ago.  Everyone on earth can be in contact with each other in a matter of second and information can travel from place to place faster than we thought was ever possible.  I feel the next step in technology will be having email as our only source of a written information rather than hand written letters of contracts but just send an email or fax sign it then send it back.  I feel than our national postal service will only be used for delivering items not mail.  This interview was very exciting and I learned a lot from this and that I may want to get involved with computer before I get left in the dust.