little less than twenty years old when I went to the fair orientation university of Messina, my path had already been decided for years I would have done the Informatic or .
Even before setting foot inside, I remembered an episode when I was a chubby child of 9 years who had just got the first computer. My father told me, "Paul , we have made so many sacrifices to buy this, I had to work overtime on the railroad and his mother - you know - everything is free so as not to miss anything about your future. Now it's up to you to decide whether to do like everyone else and settle for playing with this tool, or learn how to use it and become one of the special ones, that make the computers do what they want . "And he added jokingly:" As in that film - Weird Science - where a computer-designed breasted top model and this materialized in the flesh off the monitor and command the computer with a bullet ... here if you can sell the car and I'll buy a Commodore Amiga also 6 million:) "
will have the unusual blend of tone from heart book and a sketch of a typical worst-erotic cinema pecoreccio 70's, the fact remains that the phrase branding the future of that child naive. decided that machine would no longer have secrets for me. I read the manual before turning on the computer, I started programming in Basic, then in assembler, to 12 years, I published my article / listing on a magazine program and from there was an explosion of passion, study and play with.
Sometimes it means deciding to change everything we do from now on
So my way was marked, or so it seemed to me that day at the fair until a university orientation Exhibitors Milan - nothing to do laps of the charming city of the strait - not took me aside and asked me " Excuse me, where can I buy smoke?".
No, I'm not kidding, the funny university mandate to represent a prestigious academy of communication - a leader in training future leaders of the modest sum of 20 million pounds of annual fees - stopped for a local kid to get some 'smoke .
I could not direct it, I was a young man of strong principles,) but I took a liking to me and asked if I could replace it while he went to complete his ... "Mission".
And there I was to stop passers-by and lavish in praise of the prestigious academy which I had never visited and of which I knew nothing except what's in the brochure).
The results were excellent: a lot of people coexisted, eh! :)
" You've been very good" - said the gay just returned from Milan, with the air in true strasognata - " you have talent, talk a bit 'you . And here I told him - with that look of enthusiasm typical of adolescents - I had a website dedicated to the computer with partners all over Italy, with an international team of translators, all based on passion. Be clear, deep pearl of my editorial today, then I look huge crap:) There is But to say that seeing their own bullshit translated into Japanese, Persian and turkish gave me some satisfaction. Because it is not easy to convince people of different cultures to work for free all the same project, or engage the hearts and turn around a "cause" that is as utopian ... computer. Must know how to listen, motivate, know when to step back and when to assert itself.
And as I told with my small successes and my great difficulties, pointed out to me that perhaps I was more interested in people than to the computer .
Bingo!
decided to abandon my plans as a coach, I changed citttà and after one year I went to Milan in Communication Sciences (eheh, there is some cyclicality in this story;).
is register and programming languages, my new interface would be with the hearts and minds people. And so it was.
other times to decide is to notice that it has already taken a different route and have the courage to realign it .
