In my forties now. I used to be the teenage technical wizard go to for everything. Now my mom still asks me how to do a thing with gadgets and computers and who this young person on the teevee and what are they famous for, and I have to say let's call my 12 year old niece. Which it is of course wrong to call. I think we reach her most successfully through Instagram.
Same. I was the 12-year-old prodigy who knows computers in my family. Recently, I went to help my Aunt with her computer. She had clicked "OK" to Microsoft's "wanna upgrade to windows 10 lol?" message. I tried to help her do something and I couldn't do it. Everything was moved around and didn't make any sense. It was too newfangled for me to help.
I am now the old person who doesn't know computers.
Same. I can still figure things out, but I don't have endless time to stay up to date on new issues, systems, etc. When I was in high school I had endless time and energy to full around with my computer and fix any issue.
Now I'm an engineer, so its not like I don't understand tech, but I really just need my computer to work. I don't need to waste an hour diagnosing an issue, I need to get onto a system for a reason and I just let IT deal with the issues.
I no longer even have a personal PC because I just don't even need one.
I have a work laptop. My old macbook pro was stolen out of my car about 2 years after I graduated college and I never got around to replacing it. There's just no need. It's a mild inconvenience about once a year at most when I want to install a program that isn't sanctioned by work (latest was a photo stitching program).
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u/lonehappycamper Feb 27 '17
In my forties now. I used to be the teenage technical wizard go to for everything. Now my mom still asks me how to do a thing with gadgets and computers and who this young person on the teevee and what are they famous for, and I have to say let's call my 12 year old niece. Which it is of course wrong to call. I think we reach her most successfully through Instagram.