rantings about work and people
i really like my job, but i don't think that it requires much thought and it makes me glad that i'm going to college and will eventually get my master's degree.
all i do is basically baby-sit a desk. my boss is impressed that i've been able to pick up the computer system so quickly. but, i guess that is the difference between our generation and those of the past. but, that also means that by the time the next generation is working we will be soo far behind. technology is moving so quickly and will only continue at that rate. even within my job: about five years ago they had to start verifying the insurance that people would bring in, when they started they had to call the company every time someone came in, but now through the internet we can do it in a matter of seconds, and within the next few months it will automatically verify insurances while we type in the rest of the registration. wow...i'm sure this is boring to read, but i find it interesting. the woman who works the alternet weekend that i do has been at her job for over 30 years, and as i sat there watching her i thought of so many ways to make our job more efficient. i can't believe that they pay us as much as they do for what we do, my hardest job on the weekend is colating papers. So you know what that means....i really like visitors while i'm working :-)
I'm such a hippie...all i want to do with my life is to travel and help people along the way. i don't care if i make millions, i just want to live comfortably and be able to support whatever family i might have.
when i was in orientation we were talking about diversity in the workplace and one of the subjects was the cross-generational gap (i was the youngest person in the room by at least 10 years) and the people in my group were shocked when i defended my generation saying that we wanted to contribute to society in a way that would make a difference. i feel like generations of the past feel that ours will be a lazy generation with people that are compleatly disconnected from their employers and the world around them. i don't think that is the case, i think that our generation will need to accepted within an organization, i think that we feel like we have to out-do the generations before us, or at least that's how i feel. I feel like our parents didn't do their part, and that is partly why our world is the way it is. I feel like i have to do my part and theirs to make up for what they didn't contribute, my dad jokingly said the other day that if i go into the peace corps then the rest of the family wont feel guilty for not doing anything to help. i hope that's not what happens, i hope that i can inspire some of the younger people in my family to follow in my footsteps and contribute to the world they live in. the world needs as many people to reach out a helping hand as possible. people too often sit by and watch things happen and all they do is complain about it, never once thinking that maybe the problem is that they don't actually care about the way things affect the world on a broader scale but rather that they only care about themselves.
all i do is basically baby-sit a desk. my boss is impressed that i've been able to pick up the computer system so quickly. but, i guess that is the difference between our generation and those of the past. but, that also means that by the time the next generation is working we will be soo far behind. technology is moving so quickly and will only continue at that rate. even within my job: about five years ago they had to start verifying the insurance that people would bring in, when they started they had to call the company every time someone came in, but now through the internet we can do it in a matter of seconds, and within the next few months it will automatically verify insurances while we type in the rest of the registration. wow...i'm sure this is boring to read, but i find it interesting. the woman who works the alternet weekend that i do has been at her job for over 30 years, and as i sat there watching her i thought of so many ways to make our job more efficient. i can't believe that they pay us as much as they do for what we do, my hardest job on the weekend is colating papers. So you know what that means....i really like visitors while i'm working :-)
I'm such a hippie...all i want to do with my life is to travel and help people along the way. i don't care if i make millions, i just want to live comfortably and be able to support whatever family i might have.
when i was in orientation we were talking about diversity in the workplace and one of the subjects was the cross-generational gap (i was the youngest person in the room by at least 10 years) and the people in my group were shocked when i defended my generation saying that we wanted to contribute to society in a way that would make a difference. i feel like generations of the past feel that ours will be a lazy generation with people that are compleatly disconnected from their employers and the world around them. i don't think that is the case, i think that our generation will need to accepted within an organization, i think that we feel like we have to out-do the generations before us, or at least that's how i feel. I feel like our parents didn't do their part, and that is partly why our world is the way it is. I feel like i have to do my part and theirs to make up for what they didn't contribute, my dad jokingly said the other day that if i go into the peace corps then the rest of the family wont feel guilty for not doing anything to help. i hope that's not what happens, i hope that i can inspire some of the younger people in my family to follow in my footsteps and contribute to the world they live in. the world needs as many people to reach out a helping hand as possible. people too often sit by and watch things happen and all they do is complain about it, never once thinking that maybe the problem is that they don't actually care about the way things affect the world on a broader scale but rather that they only care about themselves.