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the line between work and non-work
Mar. 12th, 2004 03:50 pmI know I haven't been journaling much. I haven't been doing ANYTHING except work very much. Had a nasty cold all last week that is still leaving me with major interrupted sleep at night. Worked fairly continuously all last weekend, and this weekend will be the same.
I'm frustrated with work because there's so much to do, and so much I WANT to do, but so little time to do it in, and all the interesting projects keep getting put off and put off and put off so that i can get out very boring and not too informative reports on a month by month basis. It worked pretty well when I had a tech working for me to create the reports so that I could do the auditing, analysis, etc. Then they took my tech away, and at the same time started talking to me about doing all sorts of new and interesting things - all based on
the work that the tech used to do.
My manager (new) has this marvelous idea that I should automate all of my reporting and then it will go more quickly - but never has time to actually sit down with me and either see that automation will not work for this (my viewpoint) or show me how he in his greater application knowledge would make it work. He's gotten to the point where he just sort of shakes his head and asks why I'm still doing it all manually - why am I being so unreceptive to change? GRRRR!
I'm going to be in Orlando next week for the second time this month. At least this time I'm flying on United and will get frequent flyer points that I can use.
I'm not reading nearly as much as I want to read. I'm sitting up later at night than my SO and reading and he doesn't like that either. My concentration on all sorts of work keeps getting disrupted by bits and things that bring to mind books that were about this or that in some way, and then I want to read that book, and I just can't. There aren't enough hours in the day for what I want to do and what I have to do.
Heaven right now looks like the reading room of the New York Public Library and no one knowing I'm there. Although, actually, I might like a little more comfort while I read. How about a chaise lounge on an almost deserted beach with one palm tree providing just enough shade to avoid sunburn and the "almost" deserted part being the presence of a scantily clad cabana boy showing up every hour or so to quietly refill my tall, cool glass of rum punch.
And that leads me into the proposition that in order to have my vacation in Greece in the fall, I get no vacation, not a single day, between now and Worldcon. I had thought that I could make do with quiet weekends, but the line between work and not-work is drawing so thin that weekends have very little meaning at this point.
I'm frustrated with work because there's so much to do, and so much I WANT to do, but so little time to do it in, and all the interesting projects keep getting put off and put off and put off so that i can get out very boring and not too informative reports on a month by month basis. It worked pretty well when I had a tech working for me to create the reports so that I could do the auditing, analysis, etc. Then they took my tech away, and at the same time started talking to me about doing all sorts of new and interesting things - all based on
the work that the tech used to do.
My manager (new) has this marvelous idea that I should automate all of my reporting and then it will go more quickly - but never has time to actually sit down with me and either see that automation will not work for this (my viewpoint) or show me how he in his greater application knowledge would make it work. He's gotten to the point where he just sort of shakes his head and asks why I'm still doing it all manually - why am I being so unreceptive to change? GRRRR!
I'm going to be in Orlando next week for the second time this month. At least this time I'm flying on United and will get frequent flyer points that I can use.
I'm not reading nearly as much as I want to read. I'm sitting up later at night than my SO and reading and he doesn't like that either. My concentration on all sorts of work keeps getting disrupted by bits and things that bring to mind books that were about this or that in some way, and then I want to read that book, and I just can't. There aren't enough hours in the day for what I want to do and what I have to do.
Heaven right now looks like the reading room of the New York Public Library and no one knowing I'm there. Although, actually, I might like a little more comfort while I read. How about a chaise lounge on an almost deserted beach with one palm tree providing just enough shade to avoid sunburn and the "almost" deserted part being the presence of a scantily clad cabana boy showing up every hour or so to quietly refill my tall, cool glass of rum punch.
And that leads me into the proposition that in order to have my vacation in Greece in the fall, I get no vacation, not a single day, between now and Worldcon. I had thought that I could make do with quiet weekends, but the line between work and not-work is drawing so thin that weekends have very little meaning at this point.
