Do I Like my Job?
Friday, December 15th, 2006
A question that I keep getting asked is how I like my new job. I don’t really have a real, scripted answer for that question, so I usually just make something up by the seat of my pants (speaking of which, I just thought about that saying - by the seat of my pants, and so far as I can tell, it literally means you’re talking out of your ass). The response usually varies somewhat, but it’s basically the same, “Ya, I like it, it’s a lot better than my old one” etc. etc.
In reality, though, I am pretty indifferent towards my new job.I don’t like it, but I don’t not like it either. I do a lot of menial tedious work here. From going through thousands of survey questions in the database to make sure there are no grammatical errors, to copying and pasting survey questions from one document to another, or taking the number associated with that question in one form and finding the question that it goes with in another form and pasting it there.
We’ve all had days where at the end of it you want nothing more than a drink. Yesterday was one of those days for me. It was just a long day with a 7 hour meeting. I was tired. The sad thing was, I wasn’t even going to get to go to happy hour because I had plans to see the lighting of the tree at the Capital Building. Of course, I would have walked into the closest bar after that, but delayed gratification and I don’t get along very well, so I wasn’t very upset when I got cancelled on for the tree.
How often can you say that you just experienced the pinnacle of anything? Most of the time you probably don’t even know that you just did something, and in that category nothing for the rest of your life will ever compare. That happened to me yesterday. I had a ham sandwich, and I can say with 99.97% certainty that I will never have a ham sandwich that compares to that one.