the downside of being a techie

[Whatsupnowbro]

The thing is that people will ask for guidence on a cheap gaming laptop for like under $750 USD, after telling them that there is no way in hell i talk to them about the importance of a gpu in gaming, and they go and buy an hp $600 2 in 1 and complain that it can't play minecraft with an intel i5 mobile without a didicated gpu.

[Whatsupnowbro]

At our school we have PC's w/ P4's and 512MB RAM

we have macs at our school with an intel dual core 2.7Ghz and an NVIDIA 260M (both discontinued) and 512Mb of ram, and a 10Gb HHD

[Syte]

My Face When you tell people to update their drivers and they laugh and say they're "Not Stupid."

After updating drivers their problems go away, they shut up.

[Hydraulicmink4]

1. Always end up helping people WAY too much then I should (I'm fine with close friends and family but other people I barely know do it a lot more than close friends and family do).

2. Once I work on a computer and fix it and another problem occurs I get blamed for it and have to fix it again.

3. Getting thought as one of those people who will never have a life and live in their parents' basement for the rest of their lives.

4. Having the urge to update everything I see to the newest and greatest tech.

[han_han08]

a big disappointment when the only solution you can think of is: reformatting the hdd

 

edit:

another disappointment when the software support guy is expected to be knowledgeable in hardware troubleshooting as well.. (and vis a vis, not everyone is knowledgeable in ALL)

[techtime20]

The teachers call you up and say can you fix the projector and it's just not plugged in........

[steffen_anywhere]

Pretty much most of what the above posts said.

• Other people's PCs feel slow and are full of junk
• Having to deal with techies and non techies who think they are always right
• People expecting me to perform miracles
• People who treat me as the go-to guy for anything and everything related to tech (when there are a lot of stuff I don't know about)
• Griping about certain tech news and companies for the nonsense they do that techies understand 
• The 'repeat customer' family member/friend who keep getting their PC bogged down in junk
• The temptation to splurge on new hardware
• I hate the ****ing dead weight consoles chained to the legs of the games/PC industry

But I got nothing to complain about as the pros far outweigh the cons.

 

^^ this summarises my life basically