3.22.2004
Lost in Translation
Some days I feel like everything just gets lost in the translation.
I had trouble locking down the location of my blog. I swear I stuck a copy of this location in my favorites, but come Monday morning, nowhere to be found. I had to backtrack through the recommendation I got from TechTV to come here, and then struggle with some difficult interface choices to finally get here again.
For anyone who might actually be curious, yes I am an IT professional living somewhere in the desert jungles of Las Vegas, Nevada. I originally envisioned this as a place for me to vent my usually minor frustrations about the world, throw a few of my opinions concerning computers and software out there, and generally feed my ego on the idea that maybe one or two people might actually read what I have to write.
I am called upon to be creative and thoughtful on the job, sometimes my errant ideas get in the way and I need to purge them before I can get to what needs to be done. Somehow the idea of "binge and purge" seems to fit well with the concept of "Weblogging."
Of course I am blogging "on the clock." I need frequent breaks between writing custom applications and helping people with their various IT needs and issues. If I cannot reflect and amuse myself in this way, I'm relatively certain I'd lose my mind somewhere (you haven't seen it, have you?).
It is comforting to have anything that resembles a job in a time when the IT industry (not to mention the whole employment economy of the U.S.) is in such turmoil and transition. I am grateful to be a sub-contracted temporary vendor (on a long-term contract) for an undisclosed part of local government, but one does harbor wishes, dreams, and aspirations for something a little more consistent (with benefits and a retirement too).
A look at my past career choices is a shmorgasbord to say the least. I have been all over the map. I served honorably in the U.S. Navy, I went to college to become a teacher, I worked helpdesks for ISP's and Dell Computers, I've been a field technician for a national pharmacy chain, I've been a field technician for Dell, Gateway, and Compaq. The hits just keep on rolling. It's a lot of "hit-or-miss" contract work that often leaves me at the mercy of people making decisions thousands of miles away.
Some days I feel like everything just gets lost in the translation.
Where was I?
TANSTAAFL!
© 2004, J.S. Brown
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Some days I feel like everything just gets lost in the translation.
I had trouble locking down the location of my blog. I swear I stuck a copy of this location in my favorites, but come Monday morning, nowhere to be found. I had to backtrack through the recommendation I got from TechTV to come here, and then struggle with some difficult interface choices to finally get here again.
For anyone who might actually be curious, yes I am an IT professional living somewhere in the desert jungles of Las Vegas, Nevada. I originally envisioned this as a place for me to vent my usually minor frustrations about the world, throw a few of my opinions concerning computers and software out there, and generally feed my ego on the idea that maybe one or two people might actually read what I have to write.
I am called upon to be creative and thoughtful on the job, sometimes my errant ideas get in the way and I need to purge them before I can get to what needs to be done. Somehow the idea of "binge and purge" seems to fit well with the concept of "Weblogging."
Of course I am blogging "on the clock." I need frequent breaks between writing custom applications and helping people with their various IT needs and issues. If I cannot reflect and amuse myself in this way, I'm relatively certain I'd lose my mind somewhere (you haven't seen it, have you?).
It is comforting to have anything that resembles a job in a time when the IT industry (not to mention the whole employment economy of the U.S.) is in such turmoil and transition. I am grateful to be a sub-contracted temporary vendor (on a long-term contract) for an undisclosed part of local government, but one does harbor wishes, dreams, and aspirations for something a little more consistent (with benefits and a retirement too).
A look at my past career choices is a shmorgasbord to say the least. I have been all over the map. I served honorably in the U.S. Navy, I went to college to become a teacher, I worked helpdesks for ISP's and Dell Computers, I've been a field technician for a national pharmacy chain, I've been a field technician for Dell, Gateway, and Compaq. The hits just keep on rolling. It's a lot of "hit-or-miss" contract work that often leaves me at the mercy of people making decisions thousands of miles away.
Some days I feel like everything just gets lost in the translation.
Where was I?
TANSTAAFL!
© 2004, J.S. Brown
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