Work sucks

I typically don’t blog about work. My job is not exciting to most people. Some days I love it, today I don’t. My job title is different things in different places, but what I do is automate tasks involved in setting up and maintaining PCs. What do I mean by that? Best way to explain it is by example. What has been taking most of my time has been the set up of new kiosk style machines has handle our new electronic record. If you were to take the CD’s for each install (think Windows XP, and the 25 installs of software) it would take you 8-9 hours. If you didn’t do it exactly right you might get it wrong, or at the very least confuse out helpdesk when things are almost right, but not quite.  I automate so that the person setting it up makes one choice (what model computer you install on) and names it. Everything else happens without anybody doing anything, and only takes 35 minutes.  I do this in a lot of ways, but a number of them are solutions that I have to write from scratch.

So today something I wrote mysteriously stopped working. Something somewhere changed, I and had to make it work again. The real problem here is that I am the experienced one. I get all the hard problems, which gets old. In addition, the others working with me had zero experience just months ago, and I taught them everything they know. Sadly, I have not taught them enough. They don’t get through even the easy tasks without a lot of hand holding.

Combined, when things break, and I get constantly interrupted, I have bad days. I hate bad days. I can’t imagine that it won’t get better, but I also know that I figured this shit out much faster than my counter parts. I can’t tell them to go fuck themselves, because they just might, and I need the help. When we were interviewing we didn’t have any candidates that were as knowledgeable as me. And honestly, I was hoping to hire someone better than myself.

So today I came in early, will leave late, worked hard all day, and feel like I only got back to where I was when I left the day before.