My experiences served as the catalyst

During working hours, I tend to spend my day gazing at the computer screen or answering un-welcomed phone calls from high-maintenance customers. It is funny that I don’t remember signing up for this job as half of it being the customer support. Even though other employees were told that I was not to be the one given full responsibility of such a task, but alas! Slowly over the past few weeks, I was dealt the responsibility again.

Out of 4 technical people, 2 being programmers, I am the one they confide in. Is it me, or maybe I am the only one that can explain things in proper terms that do not confuse anyone? I am the only nice and polite person on the phone that people seem to like listening to and understand properly. Technical-jargon? Blah! However, on a positive note, the less people in the world that know about the machines, the longer us little people stay employed.

Now I should get to the main point of this post. Since I am the one that all the ladies at work trust in handling such technical inquiries by disturbed customers, then it makes perfect sense that I am willing to help one of the ladies create a blog. She asked me if she should start one, what did I think of bloggers, and how to even start one? How can Mona say no to that? Encouraging the masses to write out their thoughts to the world and expressing themselves freely? What a task that I must attend to without any hesitations indeed!

Yes my online friends. I helped a lady at work, who is over 50 years old, single, and more hyper than an energizer bunny start a blog.

I signed her up for free with wordpress.com. She spent a few days, no actually few weeks contemplating the idea of what to write, and what the purpose of a blog really is. I told her this bluntly, “You want to be published for free? Can you write a paragraph or two without run-on sentences and lame attention grabbers? If so, you can publish a blog. It will be better than 95% of the blogs out there.”

Surprisingly, no one asked me how I know such tremendous details regarding blogs. No one asked me how I pointed them to the most famous blogger’s websites, and explained the riches and popularity they have received over time. No one asked me how I can easily set one up. No one asked me why I know all this information regarding this open medium of published thoughts.

Either the ladies are not-so-analytically-savvy, or maybe they disregarded these questions and assumed since I am the friendly technical person, that I know everything. And when I mean everything, my brain capacity is meant to be extraordinary filled with all kinds of information like an encyclopedia. I think being a female in a field were the seemingly complicated machines are taking over people’s lives, then I must know everything else in the world!

I would link to her wonderfully expressive blog, but you know what? Let’s keep it on the down low and for no person in my employment ever knowing that I am a professional blogger with various years of experience in this field. I like my privacy and no one questioning me for having this explicit side of me.

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