left turn at albuquerque (part 2)

so i changed my major to geographic techniques. I was totally clueless when i took my first gis class. i thought it was totally stupid. i couldn't understand why someone would get paid to do this. it took a long time to really gasp the idea of gis. a geographic information system (gis) is a collection of computer, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. that made little sense to me until i saw gis in use to solve a problem. so i actually started enjoying my classes. i eventually took classes in mapping and cartography. so during my last semester in college, my friend ask me to do him a favor. he wanted a job working in the tax office for the county. he could only work have a week because of school and he wanted me to work the rest of the week. i didn't really want to but i did need some experience. as soon as he found out that we were just clerks, he quit. but i stayed on working. i used ESRI arcview a little but not at all as an analytical tool. i just searched for owners names and that was about it. working there, i also got better at reading maps. i learned about section township and ranges. i also learned to read a legal description of a deed. i know that sounds easy but reading a deed was really difficult at first.