*crossing all appendages*

[azurelunatic]

This 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.

Comments

[ekaterin]

This sounds like it is a very good job for you, I hope with you that they will keep you.

[azurelunatic]

I am sure that eventually I will have the sort of day that involves coming home and crying, but so far it has been brilliant and beautiful, or at least tolerable (the first day, there were some technical issues with getting me all set up).

[sithjawa]

This is an awesome thing.

[azurelunatic]

It is. It so very is.

[arkeiryn]

Ooh ooh shiny job! *bounces*

:D

[azurelunatic]

It is beautiful and shiny and I am so happy with it.

[amberfox]

*crossed fingers*

[azurelunatic]

I'm just going to keep charging on through. It's awesome.

[cleverthylacine]

I hope so, too :)

[azurelunatic]

Would you like me to keep an ear peeled?

[cleverthylacine]

Oh yeah :) Also I owe you money and would like to give it to you.

[azurelunatic]

What is the most convenient way?

[cleverthylacine]

I can send it to you by Paypal or give it to you the next time we go out. I just need to know when, so that I have it on my person.

[azurelunatic]

This weekend is a long weekend for me! I don't have to be back at work until Tuesday.

[mmegaera]

That's how work is supposed to be. Why it's so rare, then, is beyond me.

Go you!

[azurelunatic]

I have very much hated the "They wouldn't call it 'work' if it were fun!" because work can be very fun -- it doesn't make it necessarily easy, and certainly not effortless, but that phrase is additionally used to excuse all number of workplace abuses.

[verity]

Yay!

[azurelunatic]

It is lovely! How's your search going?

[trixieleitz]

That is a shiny shiny goal \o/

[azurelunatic]

I think it is one that everyone in my workplace would agree is a good one.

[pne]

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 heard the same about government ministries.

The minister changes, but the actual senior bureaucrats stay - and they're the ones who do the real running since they have the experience, and it's they who guarantee the continuity of operations.

(And really, I never understood how somebody can be Minister of Defence one year and Minister of Finances the next - as if they pick people for party allegiance or by drawing straws rather than finding someone who is an expert on the subject. Or maybe all our ministers are polymaths and Renaissance Humans, I don't know.)

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.

And that sounds wonderful! I wish you all the best.