Biography and Other Interests

My first experience with computers was in 1987. I was a manager for a Mini-Storage near Newburg, NY. One day my area manager told me that I needed to come to a 4-day computer class in California. The company would fly me there and pay all my expenses. The company was switching everything to computers!

COMPUTERS? Yikes! I knew NOTHING about computers! I thought everything on a desk, where there was a computer, was a computer, LOL!

After the trip to California, about a week later, back in my home-attached office, a truck arrived with lots of boxes which contained computer stuff. I stared at it, and eventually, got brave enough to attempt to put it together. Boy, oh boy, was that a frustrating experience.

From there it was a "what if "situation. I was scared to death of the thing. I had nightmares of deleting all the "stuff " in the computer and getting fired. Then, one day, " phone Stuff " arrived, followed by a call from someone in the company on how to, "hook it up" to something in the back of the computer. Now... I started hearing funny sounds, in the middle of the night, which I later understood to be modem sounds, as California came in and...... "got stuff" off the computer. <Huh?> So, I turned it off at night, so it did not make so much noise, ROFLOL.

Uh ? OK boss, yes, I'll leave the computer on at night...SORRY. :-/

Dozens of long distance, daily calls, " to my boss", lead to him telling me, to stop calling. I could not do anything wrong to the computer. It had block out codes to keep me out of where I should not be! He told me to stop calling. Ummmm ?? Okie doki :-) What ever you say, boss!

Then, it was on to Brooklyn to a computerized security system and more computers there too. :-) Then, I came back to Syracuse and vowed to purchase one ASAP, which I did around 1993, and what a mess that was. At that point, I had just enough knowledge to be dangerous, LOL. But, I learned well, advanced and started teaching in homes.

In September of 1998, I applied for, and was accepted as a volunteer, (Remote) Community Leader, at AOL working at the Help Desk. I stayed there until January of 2000, at which time I resigned, to prepare for selling our home, and our move here to Virginia Beach, Virginia. So, if you were a member of AOL during those times, and ever came into the Community Help Desk Room, you may have spoken to me in IM. My name then was, PCC Pam.

In August of 2001, I came down here to Virginia Beach and purchased a nice modest mobile home. A friend helped my husband and I move all of our furnishings, and my husband was transferred here a few months later.

I have my own fairly good size corner of the livingroom where I eat, breathe and live computer for everything I possibly can figure out how to do on it. :-)) My husband has his own computer, which is networked to both of my computers. He has a DELL.

All three computers are networked together. The main work computer (mine), is a Gateway with 512MB of RAM, 240GHz with a 80gig HD and Windows XP Home Edition with a 17" Flat screen monitor. The backup computer was made by my hardware man in NY (2004) with an 80GIG HD, 759MHZ, 256Ram,Win XP. We are on Cox Cable modem.

Other interests, work and/or schooling and experiences

I have been an entertainer, a certified nurse’s aide, and a poodle-groomer. I volunteered with the DEC (Dept of Environmental Conservation) and held both, a State & Federal License to rehabilitate wildlife. I also held a Trappers License and trapped/rescued, wildlife with Hav-a-hart traps only! I owned and operated A-1 System Cleaning from about 1980-1986, cleaning homes & offices, until a car accident put an end to all that type of physical work.

I am a writer and a published poet. I am slowly writing a novel and a biography. I took four years of ASL (American Sign Language) at a community college and as a result, was able to enjoy working extensively with the deaf community. I now run my husbands computer business from our home here in Virginia Beach, as I did in New York from 1998 to 2001, before we moved here to Virginia and I have now added Web Design to my computer skills and to our business. I have also studied and taught the Bible since 1977 and continue to do so. I am an efficiency expert as well, trained by my grandfather who was an efficiency expert in the service, so I have excellent organizational skills. You give me a mess and I will find a way to organize it ;)

And that….is a small glance into my life, past and present, and how I became interested in and learned about computers.

More............................. (poetry, family photo's and such, for those that may be interested :)

The NEXT DOZEN phone calls were "FROM" MY BOSS <GRIN>

What did you do? WHAT? How did you do that? What were you doing " IN THERE?" Opps, ahhh, not MY FAULT. <Grin> From there it was smooth sailing. I fell in love with computers. Eventually, I was sent to teach other managers the software, and to New Jersey, to clean up a mess when a manager backed out all the monthly payments and ran off with the money. I was there a month, with screaming tenants, cleaning up the computer and the mess. " THAT IS WHEN I REALLY GOT HOOKED" Big time HOOKED!

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by Pam Myers ( ALIAS: THE BUG )

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23454

OUR CREED: Any Business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will, in the end, prove unprofitable for you.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. Quote from B. C. Forbes

How I learned about computers and my other interests

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