Life File 3

I had some trouble finding where this life file was posted. I kept looking on Black Board, and I thought that was the only place I had to look. I was not under the impression that I had to go to the site Dr. Brandon made to see SDV assignments/updates as well. But now I know, and finding the next assignment wont be so difficult next time.

My personality type is a full V.A.R.K. I guess that's a good thing, but I think that I am a pretty strong K.V. I like using note cards, and actually doing things hands on to find out how every bit of something works and teams up as a whole.

A good way of discovering how things work as a whole is to disassemble them and build them back from scratch. I build websites from scratch, and ,lucky me, that was one of my jobs that came up. Web Developer. As a web developer/designer (I double in both) I have complete control over what I create for others to use. I meet with the person/people I'll be building a site for, and have them give me an/their idea of what they want their site to be like, look like, and function like. Then, if they have and example site, I base my new one off of that site. After having signed a contrat, I start work and that usually lasts around a month or two to get the infrastructure of the site up. Then comes making it pretty. That takes about another month to get everything just so. Along the way I have to set up some servers somewhere to be able to host my site, buy a domain for the site (google.com is a domain name) and link the two so the site can go live. When the site is live, but still under construction, my clients can use that to give me things that they want to have done or changed.

For the Web Developer job, the description on the bls site does not include customer reaction/interaction in the description. I sub-consciously assumed that part would be in the job description, and having not found it, am mildly surprised. Everything else though is as I thought it would be. 40 hour weeks, computers, possible wrist and back problems over time, need college w/ a degree... All the stuff that I figured was common sense really...

As for the Computer Programmer/Software Engineer job I also chose, I discovered that Software Engineers and Computer Programmers fill two totally different roles. The Engineer makes the program, but the computer doesn't know how to read or execute it. That's where the Programmer comes in. S/he enables the computer to use the program written by the Engineer. I was surprised also to find the sheer number of different jobs withing this category. For example the systems software engineers and computer engineers do two completely different things, but are in the same field... Along with this, I did find the usual bodily risks such as a Web Developer would have.

My personality type fits perfectly with these jobs. I learn by doing and seeing. If I type something into the computer, ie a structure for a site, and see that it is flawed somewhere, I can go back into the code and mess around with it until it is how I want it. If I were to read how to fix the problem, I couldn't fix it. There would be too many questions that I'd need to have answered. Like where a quote went, or what the name of a file is, etc. I'd expect to be working with people of the same personality type or with read/writers.

That was only 11ty billion words...