Perhaps your occupation is different, but I often find that my job as a Windows computer administrator has a lot in common with doctors and mechanics.
For example, most people expect their doctors to be able to examine them, maybe run a test or two, and identify the exact cause of their illness. As the television series “House” illustrates, sometimes finding the answer isn’t that easy. It’s the same with PCs (and Macs). Often, as with a medical doctor, I can diagnose the exact problem from the description I’m given and come up with a course of treatment that heals my patient. Other times, I have to perform test after test to narrow down the source of the trouble. Once in a great while, the problem simply can’t be fixed and the patient can’t be saved.
(Before I go on, I don’t mean to imply that I’m as important as a medical doctor, or that my job is “better” in any way. I’m just saying that there is a similarity that I find interesting.)
If you compare your blog subject area to something vaguely similar, does it teach you something about how to approach your own subject matter area.
