I’m preparing for a phone interview interview on Wednesday. This is the rough draft of one question, three versions of which are shown below. More to come.

• Tell me a little about yourself.
• Why have you chosen a career in I.T.?
• What draws you to this industry?

I have loved technology and computers since I was young, I remember enjoying doing some BBC BASIC programming on the family BBC micro, and I built my first computer with my own money when I was 16. Going to Imperial to do a combined electronics and computers degree was a dream, just with the new tech I could play with and learn about. Coming to China to be with my girlfriend who I met on the internet was a big change, and although I’ve been teaching in order to have residency here, I’ve learnt a lot about web tech.

Simple things like accessing friend’s blogs and various web technologies are blocked by the Great Firewall of China. I think it’s fun to find reliable proxy / VPN solutions, wondering why various DNS setups for my website don’t work, finding 3rd party applications that would work for things like Twitter and Facebook, and then finding others when they get blocked.

So I have a real passion for technology, and love the ins and outs of how things work. My degree was a combined course in computers and electronics; therefore I have a good knowledge of what computers are and can do, from the hardware, the assembly code that runs on the processor, to what operating systems do, and higher level languages. I believe that this is an extension of having a very detailed orientated character, which is useful for problem solving. If there is a problem I see it as a challenge to be solved, and enjoy the process of finding out.