Work

Most people who’ve read posts I’ve written, either in this venue or the previous blog I hosted, are aware of my profession. I am a Paramedic. I like to think I’m pretty good at my job, but I know full well there is always room for improvement. I also teach, and that actually helps me with my knowledge level. It’s important to learn new things, or at least review what you already know. I believe that, no matter what kind of work anyone does, we should always strive to be better. Not just for ourselves, but also, and more importantly, for those we serve. In my previous career I worked as a technology professional. I designed and built computer networks from the ground up. Much of what I did was in office buildings or for different types of businesses. From time to time, however, I would get hired to do work in some interesting places. One job I took on about 20 years ago involved assisting a group of amateur radio operators put a network on line that used packet switching to move data over radio frequencies. This technology is still in use but it has always been difficult and challenging both to implement and to fix when problems arise. The reason they hired me certainly wasn’t because of the radio communications aspect of this project; I have a reasonable working knowledge of how radio signals are transmitted and received, but these people were experts, and I learned a great deal over a short period of time from them. They hired me because I knew ...
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