User:Stephen23541

A Humorous Analysis of Effort

You know how it goes. You find something that you enjoy doing a whole lot, begin thinking on it, trying to figure it out, how to go about doing it, and making plans for improvement on it, and making your first attempt at it. But in the end you make a complete fool of one's self. Until you finally learn what you are doing, inexperience, like wine, is a mockery. Meanwhile, experience that you do have is a game changer. And then just when you think you have all the experience you need, you go for a job interview to get some exposure in the real world, and you find that it's not just your technical skill that you need. There's a people side to the matter, and so they still may not believe you.

You are asked to prove that your experience is verifiable, something that you can't do if you've wondered in the wilderness of unemployment for 40+ years. You will never be able to prove you had that experience, even if it is very much a part of you. Some of us even make a career of it. Your only option then is to make up some sort of business to have something to tell to them over and over again while you are trying something new. Only after sitting around in a stupified state of dormancy for a while and pretending the world will just go by as though you were a stoic, do you figure out what has just happened to you. Ideas start to click, and you then get creative. You take charge of what you know, your talents and repertoire. You collect information on how to do things according to the established standards and contribute to your body of knowledge. Only then can you resolve your problem through entrepreneurship.

Who I Am

Hello, my name is Stephen. I want to start by reminding everyone that it is not what a person does, his career, performance, or even the works of good that he can perform that identify a person, make him what he is, and make him personally justified. It is your relationship to Jesus Christ by humbly submitting all of your life to Him. With that said, I have a A.A.S degree in Electronics Technology. I am a freelance arranger, programmer, southern gospel musician and recording artist. Often I read Wikipedia articles simply because they are informative and interesting. I am always learning from them. They let me know about history, how to do things, and about the world I live in. I will try to help wherever I can. Being informed is important to me. I am an information collector, as most entrepreneurs are. That is something important for starting a business.

I believe that due to my background and interest, I am able to contribute to articles in the following areas:

• Electronics technology
• Computer technology
• Methodism
• Places and traditions in Mississippi
• Songwriting, composing, and christian hymnology
• Early 20th century music history (i.e., big band era)

I am new to this process, and so I could use some corrective tutorials. I would like to hear from some other editors and collaborate in the following areas:

• How to use wiki markup to properly format pages. I am very technical minded and can use intuition to figure out a computer language, process, or procedure by pulling fragments of information from the correct sources, considering that the key information is indeed provided.
• I am very critical of how words are chosen. Due to my technical background, I can parse phrases and words apart in ways that are powerful and provoke deep thought. Formatting and how you say something are important and can make a difference in the end impression that is given. Because my attention to detail, I find myself editing the same passage many times to get it "just right". All this can be done without violating one single grammatical rule. I love to write, and so this is my specialty.

So please leave a comment on my talk page.

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User:Stephen23541 (talk) 06:45, 11 September 2012 (UTC)