Some people are just born with computer skills. They can spend hours in front of the screen without feeling the time passing by. Well, I am not one of them. I have always enjoyed traveling, meeting people personally, talking to them. Of course, these days it is impossible not to use a lot of technology every day, but I tried to do without it as much as I could.

My company decided we all needed to organize our time better. I’m sure a lot of people were slacking on the job, but I sure wasn’t. Besides the laptop and company phone all employees were given when they were hired, the company decided to give us something else, as well. It was a small device, and I must confess I had no idea how that was supposed to help us organize our time better.

They showed us how to use it, and they told us it was necessary to note everything down in it, from contacts to appointments. For some, that was easy, but for me, it was a chore, at least until I understood how it worked. Everything seemed simple enough, from that point on. Because I had so many things to do each day, I sometimes forgot to charge it, but I was lucky to find a car charger for it.

 This is how I got friends with my hp ipaq 211 pda , the gadget that knows everything. The company checks them periodically, so we have to put everything we do into the HP PDA. Some people felt compelled to work extra hard since they’ve got it, but as hard work has always been part of my job, I didn’t have to change anything.

In fact, something has changed thanks to this device. The management got to know how devoted to work I have been, so after a while I got a promotion. I guess I owe my promotion and my car to my PDA, not bad, right?