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Why I Decided To Learn Excel In My Late 20's
I’m not ashamed to admit my computer skills are poor. I work in the healthcare sector, an area known for outdated technology. My technical expertise extends as far as Microsoft Office. No IT knowledge was taught in my healthcare curriculum — why would it be?
Healthcare professionals deal with patients, medicines and diagnosis. White lines of random letters and numbers against a black background looks like a computer virus to us.
Other adults in their 20's like me are developing websites and building apps. My technical prowess allows me to make pretty PowerPoint slides and organize my emails into folders. That’s not even the sad part.
The saddest part is realizing that my tech-savvyness would be considered ‘average’ in the healthcare sector, even though I think it’s a wildly generous rating.
The typical working day of a healthcare professional involves very little ‘technical’ work. That’s the philosophy I adopted as an excuse for not improving my computer knowledge.
I don’t need it. When am I going to use this ‘technical expertise’ when the highest level of IT knowledge I need is writing a word document or sending an email?
