Monday, August 14, 2006
HOW COOL IS MY JOB (AND TECHNOLOGY?)
I've realized that one of the things that I love the most about my job is that I'm brushing up on my Spanish - which I haven't used for YEARS.I took Spanish for about 5 years through middle school and high school. I always loved the language and used to be somewhat fluent in it. I went to college and from that point forward, I rarely used it, so my proficiency became less and less. Until now.
Most of my support work happens via email and live chat. Today I got a dude from Ecuador who spoke ZERO english, so we had to have the conversation in spanish. I opened up babelfish translator, but realized halfway into the conversation that I didn't even need to use it. I understood 90% of what he was saying. I only referenced babelfish when I wasn't sure how to grammatically respond back to him. And that, my friends, was a pretty cool revelation. My spanish is getting better and better through this job!
Of course, all I talk about is money and domain names, but hey...it's a good start!
Adios!
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FORGOT TO MENTION:
There's an ELEVATOR in the building (I'm on the 3rd floor), I have CENTRAL AIR(!!!!), AND there's a gal who lies naked on her bed - when you look outside my window over to the next building. Now, I'm all hetero and what not, but who doesn't like to laugh about naked neighbors??