Partly in response to Pauline's request here is an update on my work routine.
Work.. hmmm...
Doddle definitely not, but explaining what I do...
My office is a regional education directorate, sort of like a LEA back in the UK...
Typically I get asked to do a small bit of work that after I look at it turns into a 2 or 3 day project, this happens pretty much every day.
About once a week people ask me to look at something that is anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months work, I have 3 of these on the go at present and another 2 waiting for free time to start.
Anywhere from twice a week to 5 or 6 times a day I get requests to help with Facebook, similarly with Skype, and listening to or ripping MP3s.
I have 15 or so computers to look after all but one is in a bad state, and I rarely get time to look at anything before I get interrupted with the next task.
Every machine has viruses, most have loads, I am struggling to keep on top of this, as USB stick use is over the top, and no one scans USB sticks before use. I generally get called to look at a virus scan report most days and clean one or two USB sticks a day too.
Every machine has a anti virus on it, but there are 6 or 7 different brands of AV, none of them up to date, getting an offline update is nigh on impossible as the internet is so slow (generally under dial up speeds, quite often 1-2k per second!), so my plan of installing the same AV everywhere and running one update which I copy to every machine once a week has not come to fruition yet.
Quite often I get asked to help other people with their work which is not technical at all but just an assumption that I can do everything, so I have been asked to interview staff, write project proposals, help write a speech among other things.
So work for me at least is a quite heavy workload, but I have no time to be bored at least.
It is frustrating as everything takes so long and I have so little to work with, but the office staff are all nice and I get on with everyone, who mainly treat me like a miracle worker / tech god...
It is close to what I expected.
And indeed closer to what I wanted, though only I can get on top of things and get some more peace and quiet to get on with things.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThanks. This was really interesting as it shows that what you are offering is what is needed.
Hope that you had a good few days rest and celebration.
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Hi Pauline, I took a week off in a hotel for Christmas, but was busy for most of it so didn't really have much of a break, rather just a change.
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