I've been working in IT for as long as I can remember. Well, no, that's a lie really. I can remember going on holiday to Bognor Regis when I was about six years old. I fell into the paddling pool. As far as I know, I wasn't working in IT in those days. For one thing, I doubt I could have reached all the knobs and buttons. For another, I don't think it was called Information Technology in the 1960s.
Anyway, it's amazing how many jobs in IT basically boil down to administration. Make sure the data is backed up. Make sure the communication lines are active. Make sure your software is up to date. Make sure you've got licenses for all your software. Call the support centre when your hardware is broken. Yada, yada, yada... Be still my beating heart. It's hardly the cutting edge of technology and creativity. Despite my jaundiced view, most of the computer-related jobs I've had in the last twenty-something years have fallen largely into that category. But...
I never wanted to do this in the first place!
I... I wanted to be...
A PROGRAMMER!
Leaping from project to project...
The C#!
The SQL!
The HTML!
The CSS!
Oh, I'm a programmer and I'm OK,
I sleep work all night and I work all day!
So, a few years ago I decided to learn how to do it properly, and one way or another I ended up here, creating the OSL Training website in the guise of www.frimleywebdesign.co.uk. When I got the gig, it all sounded great, and I set to work designing database structures, creating logos and page layouts, and programming online booking processes. I could hardly contain my joy. Well, OK, it wasn't THAT exciting, but it was an interesting and challenging project.
Then one, day, when I wasn't looking, OSL Training asked me to set up a blog...
It seemed pretty straightforward at first, although making the design look like the OSL Training Website was a little tricky, and I'll admit I haven't quite cracked it in FireFox yet. But there it was - or rather, there they were - a whole gaggle of blogs, one for each of the OSL Training subject areas. Marvellous. Until I had to get people involved.
I need to invite people to be guests on the blog, and to write posts, so I log into the blog admin system. Before inviting anyone, I invite myself under another email ID, to try it out. I get an email from the blog system. I follow the instructions, and I write a blog post. Hurrah, it works. So I send out invitations to other people. 
And the emails don't turn up. And people lose the emails. And people forget their passwords. And people can't seem to get it to work. And people don't always like the system. So they all email ME! "I didn't get the email." "I lost the email, will you invite me again?" "I've forgotten my password!" "I can't post a message!" "I don't like it, it's rubbish".
DON'T TELL ME, I DIDN'T WRITE THE STUPID SYSTEM. GO AND READ THE HELP FILES! I'M NOT AN ONLINE AGONY AUNT, I'M A PROGRAMMER! Or am I? No, I'm not. Guess what, I'm back to administration again. And I'm dealing with people. People! I ask you! I don't want to talk to people. That's why I wanted to be a programmer. If I wanted to deal with people I'd have been a Social Worker. Or a Nurse. Or even a Teacher...
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