'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My description of my job may differ from one day to the next, but this is the common word description today -
I listen to doctors, and then tell them that they need to do things my way and stop being big cry babies. Then they yell at me and I tell them in my sweet voice to get over it.
I try to break software and test the fixes when I succeed.
"software" "test" and "succeed" fail the up-goer-five criteria!
So far, no layoffs in my library, but we still have at least two days to go.
Did I mention that they have chosen to meet with people in an office in the hallway that is the main route to the cafe?
My job is to help people fill out the right forms and pay the right money to the right people. I show other people how to do the same job, make sure they have all the things they need to do the job, and make sure they do the job right. I spend most of the year checking the new things we will use to do the job next year.
I am impressed that computer is a valid word for that exercise, and machine isn't. My job is kind of like this:
People use computers to do their money jobs. I learn what the money jobs are and how the computers can speak to each other to make the money jobs easier and get more money for everyone. I tell the people who tell the computers what to do exactly what the computers need to do. I help the people who use the computers find out if the computers do the right things. I help people fix their computer job problems.
if you ignore the specific slice of subject matter expertise that got me the gig, and is 80% of my day. That description covers 100%.
I use computers to find people doing bad stuff with their computers, and then make them stop doing it.
Did I mention that they have chosen to meet with people in an office in the hallway that is the main route to the cafe?
Really, Sparky? You can hear everything, even if you aren't trying to. It's like the whisper echoes in Statuary Hall.
Ugh, Sparky. That sounds awful. Lots of job ~ma to you and Consuela, both.
My job is pretty simple:
When people want to make their stuff go away, I help them do it. Sometimes they make it go away for good, but stuff never really goes away for good, does it? It always comes back in one way or another, sometimes in the air, sometimes in the water, sometimes making the world hotter, sometimes making the world a worse place to live and filling up spaces we are running out of.
Sometimes people put their stuff in a place where it can be made into something else, something new. I try to make sure it gets made into something else more often than not.
Even better is when people use less stuff in the first place. I try to help people find ways to do that, too.
I arrange words in rows, sometimes with pictures.
So, folks (paging Hec!), I need a new haircut.
Your hair is a lot curlier than Julia Stiles, though, right?
I'll look for some cuts that would work with your hair. Gimme a bit...