Learned but humbled

Having worked over thirteen years within IT I curiously found myself at a crossroad 2 years ago. Ought I keep this skill in peak condition? Do I really enjoy working in tech? Quite frankly my internal answer was NO, resounding and unequivocal. I lost the joy of learning new features, and fixing strange bugs, bogged down in the tedium and the mundanity set before me with tickets and phone calls, where did the engineering go? Has our perception of a network become comprehensive that any efficiency increase is ultimately unnecessary? Arguably engineering is needed most, now I can understand the absurdity of that statement, we look at cars and realize the over-engineered messes of electrical and small specialized manufacturing to the point where you might consider a degree in physics to understand the complex mathematics going into the framework of the car, NOT INCLUDING all of the extra features such as sensors, cameras, indicators, convenience, and entertainment.

Its only getting worse

That is just gas powered vehicles, I could only imagine the technical schematics of a Tesla, the incalculable mass of copper, lithium, plastic, silicone, optical fibers, and LEDs. Suffice to say, it is easy to get lost in all of the complexity of our daily lives, and forget that, which we take for granted, ultimately the most powerful tool we have available, the same tool which grants my capacity to write to you on this medium. The internet is incredibly vast and dense, nodes within nodes within nodes, and these nodes given the prevalence of wireless and cellular tech have most certainly fallen by the wayside. Now I admit structural constraints abound in the US, and modernization is no easy feat, there is still room for addressing the issue as a long term limiting factor for economic longevity, given the attempted transition to a professional remote specialist service structure, or at least if a debt driven consumer economy reliant on mid-level professionals driven to digitize their careers, the infrastructure must be resilient and expansive.

A solution so fierce

Given financial capitals predisposition to drive corporate earnings through buybacks, Companies are not explicitly incentivized to suffer short term losses for long term gains, the need for quarterly earnings statements to drive capitalization through share trading, no CEO in their right mind would deign to suffer multi quarter losses in revenue invested within infrastructure for fear of job insecurity, could we be so mature as to understand the necessity of a short term loser for Americans to win out against our greatest adversaries. An argument can be made to encourage Congress to allow for mergers within the Telecommunication sector, that nationwide infrastructure can benefit as a whole without further straining the Federal budget. No organization lasts forever, unfortunately requesting some lose so that the rest may gain will not be an accomplishable goal within this decade.

The fate of our Union

Were it up to me, companies would not win out on this issue, only Americans. For a real buy-in, financial capital must understand its own faults and accept the blame for the future Telecommunication economic crisis should no solution be apparent. May GOD bless us with his good Grace for our future and those of our children.