Unintentionally Blank

I don’t have the best job in the world, I’m not currently employed in something I wish to do for very much longer, but every day I spend there gives me more experience, makes me understand business a little better and makes me worth just that little bit more to my next employer. The other day I took a big step up.

Most of my day is spent solving problems. We have a new human resources system with a load of problems (mostly user error, but I’m not going into that right now) and my job, along with the rest of the team is to fix these problems, improve the system and eventually realise a project that has been ongoing for a number of years now. Basically, I am part of a help desk, so I now know about things like Service Level Agreements and occasionally hear about change management. Most of it goes over my head and I continue to work away at the problems suffered by individuals or groups using the system. Until this week that is.

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Yesterday I posted my list of things to do this week and I wanted to report on how it was going. Top of my list of tasks was to have a go at Aaron Brazell’s custom fields competition. Just now I finished my quick effort and was quite pleased for the time it had taken. Then I found out the competition deadline had been extended. I didn’t know whether to be annoyed that I put so much effort in tonight or pleased that I have extra time to complete bits that had fallen by the wayside in the rush!

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I have never been any good at motivating myself. My university days were filled with lazing around followed by all night rushes to get the work in. Back in school a free period or breaktime before a lesson was enough time to finish the homework or revise for the test. My first teacher, when I was 5, said that I’d do very well if I could always have someone behind me telling me to work and she doesn’t know how right she was.

In spite of this, I’m not doing bad for myself at the moment. I’m comfortable, but I think it may be too comfortable. You may have noticed a drop in the posting towards the end of last week and you probably assumed that I was working on something to blog about or busying myself doing something else important. I wasn’t.

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In a twist of fate, or some other force, this week I have learnt to not blog about things I’m looking forward to. Where before it seemed perfectly reasonable to show a bit of emotion about my upcoming payday coinciding with getting connected to the Internet at home, I couldn’t be more wrong!

I’m sure stealing some computer time to write about how I won’t have to steal any more computer time soon is pushing it, but the irony rests in fact that I am now borrowing the same Internet connection to tell you that I am yet to be connected. I can’t complain (sort of) because I am getting an incredibly cheap connection from TalkTalk. It’s just that when they wrote to me to say that my go live date was 31st January, you can forgive me for believing that I would be online then. What they meant, in fact, was that they would send the modem and other stuff for getting connected yesterday. I am still going to leave it until I am connected before I pass judgement on TalkTalk, but the thought of how little it is costing me keeps me going for the moment.

Posting Whilst At Work?

So you probably think I am skimping on my job and tending to Unintentionally Blank at the moment, but you would be wrong. You see, not only am I not online at home yet, I also fell ill yesterday. Leaving work early and catching the tube home whilst holding back my stomach back was not a pleasant end to the day and added to my misfortune, confining my premature excitement to the bin.

Today was spent sitting at home, drinking tea, eating soup and watching Family Guy. Not a great day. I think I’ll go and put the kettle on, sit back in front of the television and wait for the modem to drop through my door. And just in case my overly excitable post caused yesterday to be terrible, I’m definitely not looking forward to playing a gig this Saturday!

Anyway, it wasn’t all bad.

I did get paid!

This week, I will be mostly looking forward to Wednesday. It’s not a particularly special day, it’s the last day of the month, it’s in the middle of the week and I have nothing special planned. Wednesday is just going to be another normal day at work, another early morning, another commute on the tube, another day in front of a computer, trying to solve problems and help people.

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