I spend a lot of time, some weeks, helping other people figure out how their computers work (No, there's nothing wrong with your new word-processing software; your ASCII diacritical codes don't work because Num Lock isn't on. No, you can't make Excel do that with data you copied in from Word, but you can do it in Word, so why did you even put it in Excel in the first place? Sure, no problem, I can do your Word troubleshooting over the phone and tell you how to accept tracked changes for the fifteenth time. And so on), and every so often I toy with the idea of chucking this editing gig and becoming an IT guy (on the grounds that it might be a refreshing change, and surely the pay would be better?), but every time that happens pbray posts something like this ...
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I spend a lot of time, some weeks, helping other people figure out how their computers work (No, there's nothing wrong with your new word-processing software; your ASCII diacritical codes don't work because Num Lock isn't on. No, you can't make Excel do that with data you copied in from Word, but you can do it in Word, so why did you even put it in Excel in the first place? Sure, no problem, I can do your Word troubleshooting over the phone and tell you how to accept tracked changes for the fifteenth time. And so on), and every so often I toy with the idea of chucking this editing gig and becoming an IT guy (on the grounds that it might be a refreshing change, and surely the pay would be better?), but every time that happens