• Question: did you like to help your parents or others when the where fixing things?

    Asked by tasha_cooley to Rumman, Pooja, Petros, Peppe, Greg, Fran on 8 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Pooja Narayan

      Pooja Narayan answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Yes I used to always do that. Like fix the blender in the kitchen when it stopped working, fix the ceiling fan, etc.

      Sometimes it used to be the other way around as well, like breaking open fixed things 😀

    • Photo: Petros Papapanagiotou

      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I still do actually! My dad will phone me up whenever he has problems with his computer.

    • Photo: Giuseppe Cotugno

      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      My parents were school teachers, they were not great at fixing things but I really liked helped them when they were and it made me feel very proud. As such, I was used to be in charge of the maintenance all the things in the house that switch on, from computers to VCR and TV. I also like (still now) quietly observing people fixing thing, whether is a bicycle, a pipe or a colleague hardware engineer. This helps me understand how things work and how to fix them myself (in theory). I think this interest maybe attracted towards engineering in the end

    • Photo: Fran Zuch

      Fran Zuch answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I am usually the go-to person for my mom and stepdad when they have computer or mobile phone problems. They like that I am patient and don’t mock them (my brothers sometimes do).
      When I was a kid, I helped my grandfather building and fixing things in the garden and I always loved to just figure out how thinks worked myself. I still do actually 😉

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