In today’s modern era what is maybe the skill that everybody uses but only a few have mastered it? Computer skill…Right? We all need computer skills because technology is changing everyday. It is very important that everyone should learn or by far master the skills of using computers. More and more industries now relies on the use of computers and it becomes vitally important that we too should be acquainted and feel accustomed to incorporate its usage into our everyday lives. As observed almost everything now were done electronically. Since the advent of computers technology boomed more rapidly. As a result it made things much easier such as ordering our daily needs through the internet or even at the extent of paying our bills online to consumer product suppliers and utility services providers.. These now were all done conveniently with just a simple click of the mouse . On the other hand it is not possible to perform this type of activity without the proper knowledge on using computers that we so now heavily depend upon.
Computers are wonderful things. They can store tons of information and all kinds of important documents. Let us take a look around us and see how many things are now computerized. We may have take some of these things for granted like our digital camera. We take pictures then afterwards download them in our computer. After the photo downloads share them around the globe to our relatives and friends. We have to have that some kind of computer knowledge to do this. As to now employers require us to have some kind of computer skills in applying for a job. The more computer skills we have the better chance we can land on the best paying job we are seeking for.
Some of us may understand a little about word processor or maybe even about PowerPoint. But do we know enough to get a job doing these skills. Word processor is a program that we type different information. Most jobs that are in an office setting require us to have some kind of computer skills. PowerPoint is also a good program to know how to use. We can use this program to help us make a presentations. This is a good stepping stone to advance in our careers. There is the Excel which is part of Microsoft Office package. This application offers much when doing office work reports and statistical data spread sheets. We can even program simple mathematical summations if our works deals mostly with numbers. But we should not be-little about Google computer related products too. I found Google computer applications to be amazingly awesome. I said awesome in a sense that their products helped me a lot in performing my job. About sixty percent (60%) of my job deals with mapping. I work in an electric utility company and we are required to map an array of electrical distribution network needed in our department's day to day operations. In mapping we need to drive and do a lot of travels in data gathering. Somehow tiring and even landing ourselves lost in the middle of the desert one day. The coming of Google Earth had made great changes in our mapping miserable lives. By learning the skills of how to use this program we don’t need to worry about losing in the desert anymore. We now only drive to places in front of our office computer through its mouse. The only bad side of cutting those tiresome travels now is that our inability to collect our deputation allowances no more. There is also the Google Picasa. This program is all about photo management. Admittedly I am still at the initial stage of learning this program. What I like in this application is the ability to make a collage out of our treasured photo collections. Best product I admired most from Google is their SketchUp. The remaining part of my job (40%) deals with Computer Aided Design & Drafting (CAAD). I make drawing and design presentations through this computer medium. The coming of computers many CAAD programs also were introduced. I enrolled and studied the medium to be able to connect this skill in line of my career. I’ve chosen AutoCad (Autodesk product) as my computer material to practice CAAD. Learning the skill was I must say not that hard one and it is as easy as long as we have the interest and motivation to learn it. In short I find success studying the skill of using the program and applied them to my job. What I learned in Autocad mostly deals in 2D presentations. The more advance part which is the 3D was quite difficult for me to adapt. I can make 3D presentations with Autocad too but it is complicatedly exhausting and slow to produce good results. I feel stocked up with my Autocad 3D skills. So the the idea came that I have to switch on to other programs to overcome my Autocad 3D skill sluggish learning. I switched and tried learning some other 3D implements until discovering that Google SketchUp could be the best one suited within my 3D skill capabilities. It is somehow easy to learn the skill of using this 3D program. We can draw almost everything in 3D images with Google SketchUp. As an avid user of SketchUp I can guarantee that everyone will enjoy their time once they’ve learned and start using this best Google stuff. Some of us might had heard about Adobe Photoshop. I invested some tuition studying this program too. One interesting fact about this program is that we can be at a place where we’d never been to. Simply take and use a digital photo of a certain famous place and by just only using the clone function we can make it appear that we are virtually at that scene already. We can even insert anyone or make ourselves appear in any group photos to anybody through the power of this program. But before doing so please try to ask permission first from concerned subjects in a certain photo if they will allow us to do such practice. Just one way of observing and giving respect to anyone's privacy.
Computer free programs or applications software are at abound. Let us explore and widen up our horizons what really are in store for us about the more important issues related to computers. Let us discover and expand more about the many uses. For me computers aren't only meant for emails, internet, games and definitely wern't only made for our social networks cravings. At today’s age we have to look at computers as our main partners to earn our daily living. So let us add our skills and dig more opportunities which are maybe hidden in this new wonder invention. Who knows that ‘gold can also be found in computers and not only from the tunnels where miners seek under the mountains'...
