About Rick
Ξ July 31st, 2007 | → 1 Comments | ∇ About The Owners |
This is old, but here ya go anyways…
Hi, I’m Rick Davis if you haven’t already figured that out. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been working in the computer industry since I was 16. I just recently decided to start a blog so that I could (hopefully) help the world with the knowledge that I’ve gained over the years, as well as helping my finances (note Google Ads). I was really inspired to start my blog by Steve Pavlina’s article How to make money from your blog. I highly recommend reading his article even if the thought of starting a blog has ever slightly crossed your mind. So, anyways, I don’t really know what I should put on my “About Me” page so I guess I’ll start with my career/life history as it relates to technology. Well, my mom bought our first computer from some dude that she knew through a friend. I was about 10 years old at the time and I think the computer was a 486, not really sure though. I started playing around with it (Windows 3.1) and AOL. I just loved it, especially when there were things that didn’t work properly and I had to fix them. As I got more & more into it, I finally found that the guy she bought it from “overcharged” us. That really pissed me off so when the time came to upgrade, I learned how to build my own. The next big thing that help me learn about computers was IRC. I had a friend that introduced me to IRC and got me playing around with different versions of Windows as well as a few flavors of Linux. When I was in high school, I got the opportunity to take the first two Cisco Networking Academy (CCNA) courses, they were awesome! I took those two classes my junior year and since me and a couple other students did so well in the class the high school offered to pay for us to take the next two classes at the local community college. I had turned sixteen the year I was taking the first two classes, and during the summer I decided to find a job using my newly attained knowledge. I had been working since I was about 13 years old, I was one of the kids sitting on the side of the road selling Sunday newspapers, so work wasn’t a new thing to me. I ended up finding an unpaid internship at a local computer service company. The best thing about this unpaid internship was that I was able to learn sooooo many new things about managing desktops, and even a couple things about managing servers. The other good thing about this unpaid internship was that whenever we had ethernet wiring jobs, he would pay me 
I ended up working there with him for only one month though…before school started back, I was offered a job with the board of education helping them prepare the schools for the new school year. (more…)
