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The "What do you REALLY" Do Thread...
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If you've ever purchased anything from a chain of stores that sells stuff for a buck and paid with credit, debit, EBT, or check, ... that'd be where the majority of my days have been spent lately (maintaining the server infrastructure that sends those transactions out for authorization). There's over 3000 stores, so that's hundreds of thousands of transactions a day. It's a blast!!!
I also get to do the day-to-day admin stuff on our MS SQL, mySQL and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers. Not so much a blast.
I also get to do the day-to-day admin stuff on our MS SQL, mySQL and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers. Not so much a blast.
iGary said:
Ever since learning The Great Secret of life, I cringe whenever someone is a slave to what they do, and they don't realise that they can change it so effortlessly.
Every day is different for me.
Today, my kids and I woke up at 8:30 I gave them cereal and a glass of milk, and by 9am we were out the door for my son's last day of preschool.
-at school he served me a breakfast which was very sweet and we stayed to watch him work until 11:30.
-Took my 2 year old for her check up at noon. She is tiny but healthy.
-Came home, had PBJ for lunch with the kids, put them in for their naps at 1pm.
-check macrumors, surf a little while. Time to myself for 2 hours while they sleep.
that's it for today so far.
Yesterday was a very, very different day:
-woke the kids up at 7:30, english muffins and OJ for them while I got ready for work.
-dropped son off at school for the day. dropped daughter off at grandma's for the day.
-Drove into the city (not my most brilliant idea), was late for work. blah.
-Made a lunch for a cooking show audience (junior high kids) (quesedia's, salad, guacomole, salsa, an apple, cookie and milk boxes) and baked 300 cookies.
-Prepped the ingredients for the show being taped today (even though I'm not there today... someone else is putting the show out) made a tart crust, sweet potato filling, chocolate sauce.......
-Had a great lunch of roast leg of lamb and artichokes.
-Went home. Kids were picked up by my husband and already fed. I kissed them, read to them, and put them to bed.
Today, my kids and I woke up at 8:30 I gave them cereal and a glass of milk, and by 9am we were out the door for my son's last day of preschool.
-at school he served me a breakfast which was very sweet and we stayed to watch him work until 11:30.
-Took my 2 year old for her check up at noon. She is tiny but healthy.
-Came home, had PBJ for lunch with the kids, put them in for their naps at 1pm.
-check macrumors, surf a little while. Time to myself for 2 hours while they sleep.
that's it for today so far.
Yesterday was a very, very different day:
-woke the kids up at 7:30, english muffins and OJ for them while I got ready for work.
-dropped son off at school for the day. dropped daughter off at grandma's for the day.
-Drove into the city (not my most brilliant idea), was late for work. blah.
-Made a lunch for a cooking show audience (junior high kids) (quesedia's, salad, guacomole, salsa, an apple, cookie and milk boxes) and baked 300 cookies.
-Prepped the ingredients for the show being taped today (even though I'm not there today... someone else is putting the show out) made a tart crust, sweet potato filling, chocolate sauce.......
-Had a great lunch of roast leg of lamb and artichokes.
-Went home. Kids were picked up by my husband and already fed. I kissed them, read to them, and put them to bed.
aristobrat said:The Great Secret of Life? Go on..
The Great Secret of Life can only be revealed when you buy Vista. Apparantly its the talking paper clip that tells you.
I have to play referee between homeowners, home builders, and their respective lawyers, realtors, and other douchebags.
I have to write lots of legal jargon filled letters every day, take phone calls, return phone calls, make phone calls, answer web email requests. It doesn't sound that hard, until you, and only you oversee 14 of the 48 states in the continental US, and you have the worst states in the world as far as bitchy, whiney people, such as Maryland, Mississippi, Louisianna, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee and Michigan... Dear God I hate Michigan. Ideal workload is 80 files. I have 140 some odd. ****!
I have to write lots of legal jargon filled letters every day, take phone calls, return phone calls, make phone calls, answer web email requests. It doesn't sound that hard, until you, and only you oversee 14 of the 48 states in the continental US, and you have the worst states in the world as far as bitchy, whiney people, such as Maryland, Mississippi, Louisianna, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee and Michigan... Dear God I hate Michigan. Ideal workload is 80 files. I have 140 some odd. ****!
mactastic said:
That's the bugger. Apparantly his contract was terminated after a rather unsavoury incident with a hooker
aristobrat said:The Great Secret of Life? Go on..
you (and the other greedy people here at macrumors) wouldn't understand. there's only a couple dozen of us who know the secret, in the entire world.
when i'm not meditating on the secret, i'm sitting in my cubicle pretending to do work whenever someone passes. alt-tab is my friend. though i'm sure i've been caught both on here, playing hearts, etc. i am a temp so keeping the "work" i have to do going as long as i can extends my time here. which at this point, sadly, is the best i have. some of my general work includes telling citizens of the county about the low income housing program, how it works, how to apply, etc. i also process their certificates, send them letters if they don't qualify, etc. i'm mostly using MS access and the occasional spreadsheet or word document. oh, and while i surf the internet i look for real jobs... sometimes i work on cover letters and send them out here at work. that doesn't mean i ever hear back about them
e-books? how do they work? are they free? can i find them online? i really want to read/do something productive with my time wasting but i can't just sit with a book on my desk.......
Speaking of which, I haven't yet gotten your reply as to whether you're in on the field trip to the volcano to check up on Xenu.jelloshotsrule said:
Typical workday:
The alarm goes off at 5.30a. Ugh. Hit snooze twice, out of bed at 5.50a.
S***, Shower, Shave, Brush Teeth, Dress.
Out the door at 6.15a
Drive 25 miles to work, get there between 6.40 and 6.45a.
Review email (usually 10-15 new ones when I get to work) over bad coffee, oatmeal bar, and vitamins.
The following happens throughout the day, as we get 60-80 new work orders per day:
check FileMaker tracking system for new work orders
adjust production schedules
update production information
handle communications with Sales and CSR personnel
solve problems with vendors
review supply orders
consult on estimates for pending work
review USPS paperwork
create pdf proofs on jobs
attend 10.00a shipping/production meeting
attend daily officers lunch meeting
check MR
check Folding stats
Currently, I am also acting as a GC for the conversion of approximate 6000sf of warehouse into a digital print production facility. As we only have about 6 weeks from inception to equipment delivery, this is adding a touch of work to my day.
Leave work around 5.00p to 6.30p
Get home 30-45 minutes later, depending on traffic.
The alarm goes off at 5.30a. Ugh. Hit snooze twice, out of bed at 5.50a.
S***, Shower, Shave, Brush Teeth, Dress.
Out the door at 6.15a
Drive 25 miles to work, get there between 6.40 and 6.45a.
Review email (usually 10-15 new ones when I get to work) over bad coffee, oatmeal bar, and vitamins.
The following happens throughout the day, as we get 60-80 new work orders per day:
check FileMaker tracking system for new work orders
adjust production schedules
update production information
handle communications with Sales and CSR personnel
solve problems with vendors
review supply orders
consult on estimates for pending work
review USPS paperwork
create pdf proofs on jobs
attend 10.00a shipping/production meeting
attend daily officers lunch meeting
check MR
check Folding stats
Currently, I am also acting as a GC for the conversion of approximate 6000sf of warehouse into a digital print production facility. As we only have about 6 weeks from inception to equipment delivery, this is adding a touch of work to my day.
Leave work around 5.00p to 6.30p
Get home 30-45 minutes later, depending on traffic.
People cuss me out over the phone because i provide internet service to them......yea they cuss me out because there PC is too slow or its acting funny...always a pleasure
Bless
Bless
I don't trust him. He failed his last E-meter audit. I think he's been compromised.skunk said:
On topic: I can surf Wiki while working as well.
I spend the majority of my day designing promo pieces or making changes to existing printed pieces. Mind-numbing changes at times. I have the odd web banner to do once a month.
Evenings are spent with the wife and kids until 9pm, home construction and freelance design projects from 9-midnight or so.
Evenings are spent with the wife and kids until 9pm, home construction and freelance design projects from 9-midnight or so.
I spend a lot of time on conference calls, which subsequently means I spend a lot of time here. Oddly enough, I'm not on one now.
I do a lot of process mapping, which essentially means drawing pictures to describe how work flows through various departments. I look for ways to make things better, then write a bunch of procedures that sometimes people read.
I work with a number of sites thoughout the country and internationally, so I end up chained to my BlackBerry, which my wife hates, but it comes with the job.
Overall, work is pretty flexible, so I can't complain too much, except that I travel quite a bit. In this week, out 3 of the next 4 weeks.
I do a lot of process mapping, which essentially means drawing pictures to describe how work flows through various departments. I look for ways to make things better, then write a bunch of procedures that sometimes people read.
I work with a number of sites thoughout the country and internationally, so I end up chained to my BlackBerry, which my wife hates, but it comes with the job.
Overall, work is pretty flexible, so I can't complain too much, except that I travel quite a bit. In this week, out 3 of the next 4 weeks.
What is the worst for me is that i work every saturday 8am-3pm. Other than a huge rush from 8am-10/11am, all i do is read up on news, macrumors, my own site, check for updates for my site, find a movie i want to buy and think about what to have for dinner.
I loathe saturdays so much.
I loathe saturdays so much.
Title says:
Manager - Photography & Electronic Imaging
But most of my time is spent putting together client literature such as brochures, spec sheets, data sheets, folders, etc. Since I am the Mac 'guru', everybody calls me and cries "how do I do this" or "this just happened, can you fix it." And read/post to MR.
Josh:
There are days when I think the same thing. But I look at this way, I have 4 Macs I can use at the same time, all doing different tasks. It is funny to watch me go from one machine to the next; work on this project; send this to the printer; save this file and read the internet, all on different machines. Thank God I don't have to deal with the lone PC in our art dept. only when that one client needs to make a change.
Manager - Photography & Electronic Imaging
But most of my time is spent putting together client literature such as brochures, spec sheets, data sheets, folders, etc. Since I am the Mac 'guru', everybody calls me and cries "how do I do this" or "this just happened, can you fix it." And read/post to MR.
Josh:
There are days when I think the same thing. But I look at this way, I have 4 Macs I can use at the same time, all doing different tasks. It is funny to watch me go from one machine to the next; work on this project; send this to the printer; save this file and read the internet, all on different machines. Thank God I don't have to deal with the lone PC in our art dept. only when that one client needs to make a change.
I continue to gather information for my hard-hitting exposé on the subculture of online Mac users, to be delivered to a wealthy client no-questions-asked...ooops, I've said too much...
Seriously<ahem> I spend most of my time building websites for clients, as a freelance designer, with the occasional video or graphic design project thrown in. I am only average at any of this stuff, but I work cheap and have built a grass-roots client base. So I spend a lot of time in front of two computers - one with work on it, the other with MR.
I also work PT as a restaurant/bar as a manager, serving, delivering food and drink, writing schedules, making sure people do their jobs, ordering supplies etc. I have always loved the service industry, as it affords you the opportunity to meet so many interesting people - something sitting in front of a computer does not (at least not in the same way).
Largely, I manage to live life w/o a schedule - which is great.
Seriously<ahem> I spend most of my time building websites for clients, as a freelance designer, with the occasional video or graphic design project thrown in. I am only average at any of this stuff, but I work cheap and have built a grass-roots client base. So I spend a lot of time in front of two computers - one with work on it, the other with MR.
I also work PT as a restaurant/bar as a manager, serving, delivering food and drink, writing schedules, making sure people do their jobs, ordering supplies etc. I have always loved the service industry, as it affords you the opportunity to meet so many interesting people - something sitting in front of a computer does not (at least not in the same way).
Largely, I manage to live life w/o a schedule - which is great.
Revamping the ON TOPIC style of posting. (shame on you people and your secret societies of knowledge)(why does none of that look spelled right?)
Edit: while typing my rant, other people beat me to returning to the topic and made me ashamed of the above written words...
Let's see here, pick one of two jobs now that school ish out and summer ish in.
1. I spend all my days at an office being the intern(replace with any synonym for slave or whipped individual) in the office which involves: Running errands, fixing the poor dells that no one knows how to turn on, schedualing meetings with the hockey players, answering the phone, and my current real project ( a statistical analysis of a survery that was sent to about 700 people and we got about 500 of them back, oh god the data entry....
2. I spend too many of my nights waiting tables at a junky italian resturant and wishing I could shoot up the place without having to worry about second hand bullets damaging the decent coworkers and the mexicans in the kitchen, cause they are cute.
In other words I slavishly obey the commands of up to 25 people at a time, 23 customers, the owner, and a guy named Joe who thinks he's the owner and is a dirty old hippie jew (not to insult the hippies or the jewish community) who b****es about people not stocking the bread and not getting ice.
Joe sucks.
DIE JOE DIE....
Edit: while typing my rant, other people beat me to returning to the topic and made me ashamed of the above written words...
Let's see here, pick one of two jobs now that school ish out and summer ish in.
1. I spend all my days at an office being the intern(replace with any synonym for slave or whipped individual) in the office which involves: Running errands, fixing the poor dells that no one knows how to turn on, schedualing meetings with the hockey players, answering the phone, and my current real project ( a statistical analysis of a survery that was sent to about 700 people and we got about 500 of them back, oh god the data entry....
2. I spend too many of my nights waiting tables at a junky italian resturant and wishing I could shoot up the place without having to worry about second hand bullets damaging the decent coworkers and the mexicans in the kitchen, cause they are cute.
In other words I slavishly obey the commands of up to 25 people at a time, 23 customers, the owner, and a guy named Joe who thinks he's the owner and is a dirty old hippie jew (not to insult the hippies or the jewish community) who b****es about people not stocking the bread and not getting ice.
Joe sucks.
DIE JOE DIE....
Current summer Schedule. (which changes in 2 weeks)
On days when I actually have to work, usually only 3 or 4 days / wk.
5:30 AM - drink bottle of water, brush teeth; Stagger to shower.
5:45 AM - turn on radio, check email -deal w/ any (far too frequent) overnight issues
6:00 AM - walk dog
6:45 AM - feed dog, get dressedl, leave for campus.
7:00 AM - Arrive on Campus, make all necessary pre-9am calls to ppl about those pesky emails from earlier
8:00 AM - Coffee & Breakfast, possibly do the reading assignment for 9:30 am class, more likely fix any remaining overnight problems from earlier.
9:00 AM - Chat w/ my friend Kate about last night's assignments (she's a linquists department doctoral candidate)
9:15 AM - Head to class
9:30 AM - Class begins
11:45 AM - Class ends
12:00 PM - Lunch, check voice mail, check email, slake the anxiety of paranoid (But smart) ppl who make much, much, much more money than I.
1:00 PM - make those smart people actually appear smart on paper.
2:00 PM - finalize anything w/ a 5 pm deadline, submit to client. Head Home
3:00 PM - walk dog, Call client about anything submitted at 2 pm, just to follow-up.
3:30 PM - Hurry up and wait (Lots of this time i'm on MR), be available for edits etc.
5:00 PM - Everything from that day comes off my plate, look @ next day deadline items.
6:30 PM - submit RDs of all items for tomorrow. Feed dog.
8:00 PM - if I get client feedback, finalize and resubmit based on feedback. Otherwise do writing assignments for class. (Also lots of time on MR)
After that it's walk the dog and all personal time.
On days when I actually have to work, usually only 3 or 4 days / wk.
5:30 AM - drink bottle of water, brush teeth; Stagger to shower.
5:45 AM - turn on radio, check email -deal w/ any (far too frequent) overnight issues
6:00 AM - walk dog
6:45 AM - feed dog, get dressedl, leave for campus.
7:00 AM - Arrive on Campus, make all necessary pre-9am calls to ppl about those pesky emails from earlier
8:00 AM - Coffee & Breakfast, possibly do the reading assignment for 9:30 am class, more likely fix any remaining overnight problems from earlier.
9:00 AM - Chat w/ my friend Kate about last night's assignments (she's a linquists department doctoral candidate)
9:15 AM - Head to class
9:30 AM - Class begins
11:45 AM - Class ends
12:00 PM - Lunch, check voice mail, check email, slake the anxiety of paranoid (But smart) ppl who make much, much, much more money than I.
1:00 PM - make those smart people actually appear smart on paper.
2:00 PM - finalize anything w/ a 5 pm deadline, submit to client. Head Home
3:00 PM - walk dog, Call client about anything submitted at 2 pm, just to follow-up.
3:30 PM - Hurry up and wait (Lots of this time i'm on MR), be available for edits etc.
5:00 PM - Everything from that day comes off my plate, look @ next day deadline items.
6:30 PM - submit RDs of all items for tomorrow. Feed dog.
8:00 PM - if I get client feedback, finalize and resubmit based on feedback. Otherwise do writing assignments for class. (Also lots of time on MR)
After that it's walk the dog and all personal time.
Yesterday i was creating art.
Today I've been writting letters, terms and conditions and price lists......
Today I've been writting letters, terms and conditions and price lists......
"Assurance Services Associate"
December-March: Spend 70 hours a week throwing numbers into excel docs double checking clients work (90% of those hours) or bumming around online waiting for client to give me the support I need to finish my spreadsheets (10% of those hours).
April-November: Spend 35 hours a week filling in easier schedules (25% of those hours) or bumming around online waiting for client to give me support documents or just procrastinating (75% of those hours).
December-March: Spend 70 hours a week throwing numbers into excel docs double checking clients work (90% of those hours) or bumming around online waiting for client to give me the support I need to finish my spreadsheets (10% of those hours).
April-November: Spend 35 hours a week filling in easier schedules (25% of those hours) or bumming around online waiting for client to give me support documents or just procrastinating (75% of those hours).