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160. Why Mitch O’Dell Won’t Assign Jobs He’s Not Willing to Do Himself

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mitch O’Dell Mitch O’Dell is the Director of Information Technology at Shimmick Construction, working his way up from Computer Operator Lead. Starting off, Mitch was initially a military man and worked as a Computer Switching Systems Journeyman in the United States Air Force before returning to civilian life and continuing his IT career. Mitch also holds a master’s degree in Emergency Management from Arkansas University and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Colorado Denver. Why Mitch O’Dell Won’t Assign Jobs He’s Not Willing to Do Himself Join Mitch as he discusses how the military ties into construction and IT, why it’s best to have a human connection in problem solving, and what it’s like being a jack of all trades.

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0:00.0

Hey, Mitch, I'm going to start this off.

0:13.0

This is, is your first podcast?

0:16.3

Yes, yes.

0:17.1

All right.

0:17.5

All right.

0:17.8

Well, I'm going to start this off with something I like to call

0:21.1

random access memories, just so we can kind of, it's so fun. I'm going to give you some,

0:27.5

you know, a question. You come up with like, you know, just what's off the top of your head on that,

0:33.3

right? So, first things first, clicky keyboard or quiet keyboard?

0:41.8

Clicky keyboard. Clicky keyboard. All right. All right. That's that. You know, I had a, I had someone one time,

0:48.5

they were an executive assistant at this company, top executive assistant.

0:58.1

And they had to have a clicky keyboard.

1:04.0

And so we, as we got them like back and in and found clicky keyboards, we would just stack them up so that if there was ever a problem, and there was, we would just swap out the clicky

1:08.8

keyboard with another one rather than no order.

1:18.0

These were the old school click, click, click, you could, every single key press you could have was that, was doing that.

1:19.9

So now a question.

1:23.1

Do you ever make your own computer, do anything like that? I've've done i i did that since i was younger

1:30.6

everything i kind of gave up in the last few years last several years though it just don't have the

1:35.9

time anymore that's the same way right well let me ask you question did your computer ever glow

1:44.0

not really i think i might have put a light in at one point but i think it's ever glow? Not really.

1:45.2

I think I might have put a light in at one point,

1:47.4

but I think I was done building them by the time we made them glow.

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