The place I make my rent

Two days a week, I work at the New College Library as a "Computer Lab Assistant".
This is my "job title". I put this sign on my little desk, and hope someone will have trouble with one of the 20 WinXP computers and ask me to help them.



There are quite a few interesting questions I have got. I always answer them patiently - after all this world is not perfectly filled with nerds like me.

"How do you..turn on the Internet?"
- Click on the "e" sign on the front.

"How do you open another window?"
- I pressed Ctrl+N for him. He was very happy.

"What's wrong with this computer? It wouldn't load MySpace."
- (Apparently MySpace uses some funky Flash that crashes IE every time.)
Go talk to Microsoft...(Of course I could ask the system admin to update the Flash plug-in...meh - library computers aren't for MySpaces.)

"UTORMail is not working! Can you check this computer?"
- Looks like this computer can't access UTORMail when they are doing its maintenance. Give it a few minutes I guess?

I rarely get asked difficult or even technical questions. The most work I've done was to set up a girl's MAC wireless connection- it was fun.

When people are busy with their important business such as facebook, I look around or study. When you have to sit at a fixed spot facing the same view 6 hours a day, you start to appreciate its profoundity and beauty.

This is the exact view from my angle. Figured out where I sit yet?



The other side. These books are Encyclopedia Britannia, published in the 1910s. Over 100 years of wisdom is all written in these thick, fine-covered books.



This is the study area. Quite fancy light - it reminds me of the honey nut cheerios :)



It is fairly easy work - a part time work in a library to make up my monthly rent. I am not asking for more.