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*crossing all appendages*
Feb. 16th, 2012 03:09 amThis is my long-term goal in this position:
I want to be the person who everybody thinks is irreplaceable until the day when I'm out sick or something, and they have to call in some form of substitute and the substitute looks at my beautiful documentation and weeps with joy; maybe it takes them a while longer to get things done but they'll be able to do the things just fine because they are properly documented.
When I was in elementary school, FatherSir explained to me that it was the secretaries in the front office who ran a lot of the things. They weren't the principal, but they were in charge of many things, and knew how all the things were done, and had very real day-to-day power.
I loved offices, loved office supplies, and wanted this. Because my father had an office job programming, my sister and I "played office" a lot, even before. We had a hilariously complex imaginary office, which included a lot of heavy machinery and an underground tram.
Later, I embraced computers, and learned to love the process by which people noticed the things that could make their various computerbits better, and got them to the people who could actually do that. This, too, was something I aspired to do.
This job is in administrative support of the people who speak to users. This is the intersection of the childhood dream and the adult dream. It is in the state that made me cry upon recognizing the hills as home. This -- this already is more than a day job to get me a living while I do my real work in my own time. This already is meaningful to me, and I could make a career out of it.
I hope they keep me.
I want to be the person who everybody thinks is irreplaceable until the day when I'm out sick or something, and they have to call in some form of substitute and the substitute looks at my beautiful documentation and weeps with joy; maybe it takes them a while longer to get things done but they'll be able to do the things just fine because they are properly documented.
When I was in elementary school, FatherSir explained to me that it was the secretaries in the front office who ran a lot of the things. They weren't the principal, but they were in charge of many things, and knew how all the things were done, and had very real day-to-day power.
I loved offices, loved office supplies, and wanted this. Because my father had an office job programming, my sister and I "played office" a lot, even before. We had a hilariously complex imaginary office, which included a lot of heavy machinery and an underground tram.
Later, I embraced computers, and learned to love the process by which people noticed the things that could make their various computerbits better, and got them to the people who could actually do that. This, too, was something I aspired to do.
This job is in administrative support of the people who speak to users. This is the intersection of the childhood dream and the adult dream. It is in the state that made me cry upon recognizing the hills as home. This -- this already is more than a day job to get me a living while I do my real work in my own time. This already is meaningful to me, and I could make a career out of it.
I hope they keep me.
