Nonsense rules supreme.
You know, one of the things that always frustrated me in school was the extreme lack of interdisciplinary learning. It genuinely bothered me that a political science prof, an english prof, and a history prof would all have entirely different perspectives on say, Tolstoy. There was always a sense of missing the larger picture.
(Aside: while I'm an English major of sorts, I'm not at all interested in pure aesthetic analysis of works (i.e., what 90% of English classes focus on exclusively). That bores me silly. What does fascinate me is the impact of a work of art on various audiences, and the various contexts that it's understood in. In essence, applied English.)
However, I've come to realize that whatever its faults, the sphere of education is a million times more cohesive/coherent/organized than the working world could ever hope to be. Lately, I've been reviewing deduction claims by various vendors, often dating back to (horrors!) 2004. I think I have more paperwork in my room at home that documents 2004 than my company does in the entire building. Vendors are still interested in adjustments on orders from '04, and we have no idea whether they're legitimate requests or not, so we're forced to accept them carte blanche. (Why this stuff wasn't cleared up, say...2 years ago...is beyond me!) Technically, it's not entirely my company's fault, because they bought out a series of businesses that apparently didn't believe in keeping a balance sheet, much less vendor price lists.
Nevertheless, I constantly feel like I'm working at the edge of a black hole. I really thought this feeling would go away now that I'm finally out of the service industry and in the glamorous office world, but it festers.
(Aside: while I'm an English major of sorts, I'm not at all interested in pure aesthetic analysis of works (i.e., what 90% of English classes focus on exclusively). That bores me silly. What does fascinate me is the impact of a work of art on various audiences, and the various contexts that it's understood in. In essence, applied English.)
However, I've come to realize that whatever its faults, the sphere of education is a million times more cohesive/coherent/organized than the working world could ever hope to be. Lately, I've been reviewing deduction claims by various vendors, often dating back to (horrors!) 2004. I think I have more paperwork in my room at home that documents 2004 than my company does in the entire building. Vendors are still interested in adjustments on orders from '04, and we have no idea whether they're legitimate requests or not, so we're forced to accept them carte blanche. (Why this stuff wasn't cleared up, say...2 years ago...is beyond me!) Technically, it's not entirely my company's fault, because they bought out a series of businesses that apparently didn't believe in keeping a balance sheet, much less vendor price lists.
Nevertheless, I constantly feel like I'm working at the edge of a black hole. I really thought this feeling would go away now that I'm finally out of the service industry and in the glamorous office world, but it festers.