Alan Schaaf Quotes

I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

The worst job I ever had was working in the call center of an electric company. I sat in a tiny cubicle getting yelled at every day so I could earn minimum wage.

Ask anyone in the industry if Bumbada is accessible. A technical hand can call me at 2 A.M. and I will be there to help him.

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I enjoyed working at McDonald's.

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I can barely turn on my computer!

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.