Friday night bullets: Work update/Philosophy on self-directed, online courses

• Work/career is good, much to learn.

• There will be a work from home component, eventually.

• My office1 (former bedroom) has my personal computer and a twenty year old, Windows XP computer for old games.

• So there is no room on my desk for another computer set-up.

• This photo features my closet door, storage room, became academic library.

• As of tomorrow, it will also become office2.

• Ironically, the closet door sort of hides the room, just as the work is confidential.  

• People have walked by the closet door, assuming it is simply a closet.

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• My two co-workers and fellow trainees believe the self-directed, online courses will become more difficult. 

• I kindly, disagree, at least for me, having done like self-directed, online courses before, when I worked in corporate security for an entity worth 2.6 trillion worldwide at the time. 

• With each module, the knowledge accumulates, the terminology and concepts repeat, making learning easier.

• In some ways these initial ethics, security, regulation like sections are more difficult because with ethics (philosophy), there is often shades of gray in what a right answer is on a quiz or test.

• The future testing that is more specific to our work should be technically more black and white, IMHO.

• There are plenty of 'bugs' in the system which leads to sections being done more than once.

• On the bright side, this means I learn them better...

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• One of my trainee co-workers that is young, of a different worldview and from far away originally, told me it was good to work with such a funny guy.

• If this was church I might have asked if I was funny looking...

• But not at work.