Technology has been a fascination of mine from early on. Steam engines as a young child, junked radios and astronomy in grade school, graduating to ham radio and a telescope in high school. Math and science were favorite subjects.
In college, I started out as a physics major, enjoying that subject, but later on, music and religion edged ahead, and I graduated with a major in religion and philosophy and a minor in music. However, I engineered a closed-circuit campus radio station, and experimented with hidden antennas for my ham radio interest. In my last years in college, I worked at two radio stations as engineer and announcer.
In seminary, I worked as a maintenance technician in the media lab, learning videotape and film projection technology and maintaining the videotape recorder used for preaching classes. I worked a summer job at a radio station and in my last years worked as a playback technician at a cable television station. Ham radio experience continued to develop.
My work at a company that manufactured emissions monitoring equipment and systems was fulfilling: I learned more about computer and data acquisition technology and became their main tech support technician and trainer.
Finally, my work at the Rocky Mountain Conference office brought together my faith commitment and my technological expertise as I became the main communicator through email and web for the conference, under the leadership and guidance of the Director of Communications. Over the years there, I became the web maintenance tech and worked with a designer to roll out a new web site based on content management technology. I became a go-to person for minor computer and network issues in the office, and helped pastors and churches transition to new email processes.
So, technology continues to be fun and challenging as I continue to learn and increase competence.