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Friday, November 12, 2004
Restless
" The three grand essential of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for." -Thomas Chalmers
I got the something to love and something to hope for down...i'm still working on that something to do part. i got a full-time job which is laid back enough that i can take a day off without worrying that i'll fall behind in my work. i can decide to take the afternoon off with just a moment's thought. it's such an ideal job for many of the working moms out there but for a few reasons i'm getting restless. first of all, i need/want to be earning more (who doesn't?) but i can't necessarily ask for more because business now is very slow...which brings me to my second reason, work now very slow...to the point that usually by 10 o'clock i got nothing to do till 5. at first, i enjoyed surfing the web...reading about news, beauty tips, entertainment gossip and the like. but it got old real fast. before the lull, 8 hours was barely enough time to get my work done...even with three of us on the job. each of us had at least 2 trucks. each truck had two shifts a day and each shift took at least 45 minutes to process which is about 3 hrs of our time. we had to edit the daily report, update the status report, have the data checked and sent to the customer...this had to be done before 12 noon PST (because the customer had a meeting 4pm their time). the data would sometimes have problems which would interrupt our "flow" ... fixing it would take anywhere from 15 min to a whole day to fix. everyday we had the engineer calling us at 10 and every 30 minutes after that asking for his data... and our boss breathing down our neck because the engineer is calling him too. i'm babbling.... as i was saying, now that work is slow and i'm basically staring at the computer all day looking for something interesting to read i feel my mind is slowly turning to mush. i used to really love what i do... i miss being challenged at this job...but i can't just leave because it would be hard to find a job which allows me to basically come and go as much as i want as long as i get my work done...which comes in useful when i have to watch clara while my mother-in-law has a doctor's appoinment which is at least once a month... it would be hard to do that at another job...i'm stuck in a rut... don't mind me...i'm just venting... |
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