Lost in Technology

[lordcochise]

Another day, another several hours lost in technology at work. I think I'm getting stir crazy even on these weeks where I'm in the office at Audiosears for a few days (used to happen only in the longer weeks). I want the hobo life of extreme commuting to end, but for now I can stand it for a few more weeks / months

Comments

[wavemaster]

HAHAHA FT IT job that is less than 50 hrs / week... LOL Erik you crack me up. It may be a FT job, and it may say 40 hrs / week on your time card, but I promise you it is 60 hrs / week if you want to keep the job.

[lynnini]

That doesn't even have to be an IT job to be true.

Absolutely

[lordcochise]

Yeah - admittedly, IT jobs tend to be notorious for this sort of thing, but the same is true for Nurses / Doctors (or any kind of caregiver, really), Emergency Services personnel, anyone in the military, etc. The industry is never in any way significantly preclusive compared to the demands of the individual location and the occasional overbrearing boss.

The hours themselves mean less to me than the QUALITY of those hours and certainly there are better hours than others. My beef lately is never feeling like I can run at anything under top speed and everyone requesting work is always in crisis mode.

Unfortunately widely so

[lordcochise]

well, I'd be happy to do more hours for the right $$ too, but not all tech jobs I have had have been crushing. Even Audiosears doesn't outright demand overtime from its management, and I already got the best review in the company even for averaging about 45-50 a week last year.

Re: Unfortunately widely so

[wavemaster]

I think that you should choose a town that you want to live in and open up a LAN place, like the one in Oneonta, only also make it a cyber cafe. Then you can do the PC repair as well.

Re: Unfortunately widely so

[lordcochise]

Yeah...Y'know I really would be interested in doing that...combo repair shop and cyber cafe - Imagine what the Apple store, only with food, and catering to PC, Linux AND Mac. That would be a lot of fun.