28 January 2009

The art of work

For me there is an art I have had to learn to my job. During the school year I work part time for Interstate Rock doing odds and ends in the engineering department. Lately I have been doing asbuild drawing for a project down at Lake Mead. Normally it is pretty easy and it doesn't take very long for me to get my stuff done so I work myself out of a job and I usually only get a few hours a week. But lately I have been working on a site that has a really big file and the computers at work struggle to run Autocad anyway but this file is so big and uses so much memory that I do something and then have to let it think. If I get impatient and try to do too much then the program crashes and then I have to start over. I have had to learned to save after everything little thing I do. Today I have felt like I have spent more time redoing things because I didn't save before I had another crash. The art of working for me today has been do something, wait, save, and repeat. It has been a really frustrating day for me. When I am at work I want to be working, I really hate just sitting around doing nothing. So in a day that has lots of sitting around I have been going crazy. Also it has been really crazy at work. There is a really BIG job being bid later this week and everyone is running around doing everything that needs to be done and I have just been sitting here. Granted I have done everything that they wanted me to do for that job a couple of weeks ago but it just adds to the frustration since I am not really doing anything and everyone else is working there butts off.

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