Vista - I feel useless

I know that this will sound silly to most but I am also sure that some may feel the same, I have already said this to a couple of members in PM's but I wanted to talk about it here as I can't really stop feeling useless.

As much as I feel so at home here, I also feel so damn useless, and keep putting so much pressure onto myself to try to help others, yet my knowledge of most things here is so poor that I feel I am a total waste of space this is a feeling that I cannot do anything about, but to make everyone understand I would have to go into my life story and I am not about to do that ("thank god" I hear you cry!! lol ) and you'd be right.

But in all seriousness, I wish I could be of more help, and get paranoid into thinking that I am being watched to see how much of a help I am or am not being, this I know is not true......I hope lol

Please forgive the silly post, but does anyone else feel like this? my guess would be no, as most threads that I have read would indicate that you all know your stuff, I know it is a matter of learning and remembering, but that does not come natural to me, most advice and help that I have received goes in one ear and out of the other, practically nothing sticks, my mind goes blank when reading tutorials and I can't deal with it.

Maybe others are like this too, but maybe not so extreme as in they can eventually get stuff into their heads, I just can't for the most part, and feel I am giving the community here nothing of any value I really apologise for this

Please don't get the Violins out lol its not meant to come across like that, but me and wording things also is not great.

In short I hope you don't get penalized for not helping anyone, believe me I would if I could, but I get down easy.......and apologise to anyone that I may have advised and it has not been at all helpful.

Please don't have a go at me for this post, I just wanted to say in a nutshell that I feel bad for not being able to help anyone

All I find I keep doing is asking things myself instead of helping others

Jekyll and Hyde

just couldn't help it

Jekyll and Hyde

By all means you are not silly.

I feel the same way as you do, everyone seems to have much more knowledge than I do.

I hardly ever post a question, for fear I'll be laughed at.
So mostly I read the posts and learn that way.

mopar

I know the feeling I get it sometimes too. Don't feel bad about it though.

Well I am glad I am not alone, thats one blessing, although I don't mean that in an offensive way

I also nearly always get nervous of reading replies, I've been like this on every forum I have ever been on, and its awful, then again I have to cater for two of me, so its even harder lol

But all the techy things are just way over my head, and although I feel so much sympathy for those that are having major problems, I wish I could stand over their PC with a magic wand and wave it across and all is sorted, and in an ideal world that would be terrific, a squad called "PC Magic Squad" no call out charge, and a completely free service. yeah I wish lol

But thank you for the nice comments, not what I was expecting

Jekyll and Hyde

Hi J+H, you are way funny.

Don't feel bad about it, every one feel like useless sometime. I like to point out that lots of people here are engineers whether computer is their profession or not. Some people learn from their hands on experience in learning and building computer from scrap and keeping it healthy. If you hang around computer forums long enough, one day you would be knowledgeable and confident enough to build your own computer then thing you read and listened will stay for good.

Whether it is good help or bad help are all helps. Help is all we do and all we need. Nice to see you around. Cheers!

try doing as i do and stick to helping with what your know best or are good at and just learn from the rest....
no matter how small your contribution it all adds up at the end of the day and without your/our small amounts of input vista forums wouldn't be as popular and useful as it is today

don't fret and be proud of the skills you bring to to this site no matter how small they are

I am a newbie to computer repairs and just finished up my A+ Certification. With that being said I too feel left out of the loop to. There are always two ways to look at the situation. One, look at like you do and feel useless or look at like I do a free learning center. A center with an abundant of knowledge for every one to share in. I've learned same amount of tips and tricks here if not more than I actually did getting my A+ Certification. Though with the knowledge of what I have obtained from the A+, I now have a better understanding of what the other tech savvy and certified professionals are talking about in this forum. I just jump right in and start asking questions and answer what I can and when I can...fun to learn from others.

Hi JH,

yeah there's no need to feel bad about it. A lot of people have different strengths in different areas and there's no shame in asking questions about something you don't know. I've never met a person that was born knowing 'everything'

I like to pass on what I've learnt from others and from personal experience. Sometimes I feel like a noob asking some questions that I've had zero experience with, but there's always a first time

So learn what you can and pass on what you can, but don't beat yourself up if you don't feel your if your not helping. No ones judging you mate

Hi J-H....

were all noobs here in one way or another, every member on this forum knows something another member does not, that's how the wealth of knowledge is formed

i have made many cock ups .....& given info thats turned out to be wrong but it happens...

i assure you the last thing we want is ppl to feel pressured to post, or feel like they're being watched, i spent months reading before i posted & even then i just dipped in slowly

the one thing i can safely say about this forum is, there are no wanna be tech head e-peen polishers, the members here are VERY helpful & don't care if you personally don't know that much about PC's, they will help out all the same

so just relax & pretty soon you will be like our ambassador = Ted!!! (bare foot kid), just watch how he works the forum.

SK