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Why I hate web maintenance....
So -- I spend the afternoon sifting stuff from a half a dozen sources, trying to build a couple of pages for one of my big clients, who are entering into a tussle with the legislative bills being proposed. I launch the pages, they look great, I check every link -- and I tell the president that she can check the site. I get home from class, she likes everything, all is well. Then I decide to double-check the .pdfs I posted, because you never know if you've blinked and forgot to make the target "_blank" or something....
And lo and behold, the ONE link that isn't a pdf I made, to the NCES/government site -- the link is ALREADY A COBWEB!
Some days I hate this job. I was suspicious of this industry from the first, and so far nothing has happened to change my mind.
I'm dreaming of Macs....
And lo and behold, the ONE link that isn't a pdf I made, to the NCES/government site -- the link is ALREADY A COBWEB!
Some days I hate this job. I was suspicious of this industry from the first, and so far nothing has happened to change my mind.
I'm dreaming of Macs....
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Not that I know of -- that was a non sequitur. I'm just on a "I hate computer culture" jag. W's company is desperately trying to make a self-imposed deadline for making some of their proprietary software work with VISTA, although he says no one in their right mind would use it for measurements instruments -- not in its current form. We all know MS throws things into the marketplace and THEN fixes bugs.
But every day my system starts dragging its tail, because still another patch has come down from Microsoft -- and I don't trust ones I haven't watched install, so I have to install, stop working and save and reboot...
Simply put, learning my way around a computer was interesting and amusing. I like designing clean, highly functional web sites. But re-learning the wheel every six months stinks. My brain keeps saying "You have a lot of important things you could be doing that you would be very good at -- why are you wasting time learning still another software package that you can't use well enough yet to reach a level to get hired, when someone else would do this job better?"
There was a reason I didn't want to enter the computer industry. Unfortunately, at 22 there was nothing else I wanted enough to go on for a Masters, although when I couldn't get hired in the six fields I was qualified for, I should have figured that out. I'm not good with standardized tests -- so I could only get into a MBA class provisionally, with extra work before. And I really didn't want the MBA -- I wanted a job that paid a living wage and would not bore me to tears. I wanted to write. I even applied for a bank teller job, thinking the money would be decent, it wouldn't drain my creativity -- but a bank officer told me that the people doing the HR/lie detector test would say: "She'll never stay." The joke is on them -- I'd probably be Vice-President there now if they'd hired me.
This was a long way of saying, moving to the top of the job/salary game was apparently not what I'm here for, this time around the wheel.*
*Or else I'm screwing up big-time... ;^)
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Stuck for now --
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I'm such a hypocrite. *g*
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