Confessions of a Lifelong Tech Geek

I’ve been a tech geek for so long it’s practically a family heirloom. Some kids grew up with football stickers or Pokémon cards… I grew up with floppy disks, CRT monitors, and strategy manuals that looked like they belonged in a university library. If you dropped me into a room in 1989 with nothing but an Amstrad, a pile of fantasy RPG guides, and a pack of Digestives, I would’ve been sorted for the weekend. And honestly? Not much has changed. I still collect old game manuals. I still get emotionally invested in imaginary worlds. I still lose hours tinkering with laptops, apps, and whatever gadget has crossed my path that day.

Here’s the funny part:

All that obsessive geek energy ended up becoming the best training program for what I do now. Most people pick up a laptop and pray it works. I pick one up and immediately want to know:

What’s under the hood? How’s the airflow? Why does this Wi-Fi chip behave like a moody teenager? What’s the quickest route to squeeze an extra 20% performance out of it? This stuff isn’t just my job — it’s a lifelong hobby that accidentally became a career.

That’s why Gadget Club exists. Because when you genuinely love technology — not in a corporate, soulless way, but in a “look at this ridiculous old manual I found” way — you naturally want to help people get the best out of it. I don’t do generic fixes. I don’t do one-size-fits-all. I dig in. I optimise. I troubleshoot like a man trying to save a Baldur’s Gate character from permadeath. And I do it because tech still excites me now just as much as it did when I was a kid. So if you want help from someone who actually lives this stuff, not someone who clock-watches… you know where I am. Whether it’s your laptop setup, your home Wi-Fi, your gaming rig, or just figuring out why your smart TV acts like it needs therapy — Gadget Club’s here for it. Because once a geek, always a geek.

And honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. If loving RPG manuals is wrong, I don’t want to be right.