Assignment 2 (English for Business & Science II)

I am going to dedicate this free topic blog post to present love/hate relationship with computers. This may sound strange as I currently is studying my final semester to be an IT-designer but there is nothing that can make me as happy as when something I have created on the computer works as it should and also nothing that can make me as angry as when it doesn’t work as it should.

Today I had an experience that made me furious. I came down to the living room, turned on the computer and sat down to check my e-mail but the only problem was that the only thing I could see on my screen was the mouse-pointer, nothing else. After a couple of minutes of cursing and swearing I got my installation-dvd into the computer and ran the repair program but that didn’t help at all. The screen was still black and I had to cook some food for my girlfriend for her lunch so I put the computer aside for maybe about an hour. Then, when I returned to the computer it suddenly just worked! Stupid computers!

On the other hand I truly realized that I am both addicted to and dependent of my computer and especially the internet. During the almost four hours without my computer working I felt totally isolated from the world. I also realized that this is not all good. Maybe even no good at all…

Keep computing!

Assignment 1 (English for Business & Science II)

This blog assignment is going to present my view on how things in my life will change both in the next five years and in the next fifty years. I will start off this assignment with the next five years.

This summer I will graduate from the university of Karlstad with a bachelor degree in information systems. Due to this fact my first thought on the next five years will be:

Will I get a job that I am going to be happy with?

With the finacial storm just passing the job market doesn't look to bright but as someone close to me said "there are always jobs available to those who are reilly good at what their doing". With that in mind I hope to show some employer just that. So that is the first thing I see in the near future, getting a job I like.

The next thing I see in the near future might be proposing to my girlfriend and getting married with her. Maybe. I have nothing planned or anything, just thinking about it. Nothing definitely.:-)

If these two parts of my life turns out the way I planned then I would like to build my own house. Not completely on my own of course but I would like to do as much as possible by my self. This part may belong to the second part of the assignment, the part that deals with the next six to 50 years.

I must say when looking at what I have written so far, it feels a little like a game of domino. If the first piece falls the rest will also fall or at least be pushed away a bit in time. Maybe that's how life is supposed to be but the "getting-a-work-anxiety" isn't getting any less significant by writing it down...