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tyrsalvia, me taking stock of myself with regards to work. Do not feel obligated to read it.
Question the first. If I had the option not to work, would I take it?
Answer the first. DUH! There are so many other things I want to do with my time. This is also the major reason I had myself sterilized: children would take up far too much of my time for me to be able to do the other things I want to do with my life. I want to be able to spend my time on what I determine it should be spent on, not have anyone else demanding it of me. I worry as it is that I don't seem to be "vast" enough to focus on more than one area at once, not and get anything accomplished beyond the most trivial things. Work complicates this situation. So if I could opt out, I definitely would. That is not an option at this point, however, and so we continue...
Strengths:
-- Organization, time management, memory for and attention to detail. I'm fine with deadlines so long as I feel that the task is within my abilities. Art classes sucked - I had to be creative on demand and I can't do that - but the other aspects of scheduling school actually gave me a kind of perverse pleasure. I like making to-do lists and breaking up reading into a set number of pages per day (so that I don't have to cram) and that sort of stuff. Call me Virgo. ;)
-- English communication. I am not a swell public speaker, but of course my English is fluent. My writing is painfully clear (I have a tendency to over-detail, which I need to rein in), and deathly correct if I am inclined to make it so. I can organize and construct an essay or any other such piece of writing. I almost never use rough drafts because I don't need them.
-- Computer use skills. I am not a "techie" but I can build up a desktop from scratch and am overall very savvy in terms of daily use of the thing.
-- Ability to follow directions, fast learner. Provided the instructions are clear I generally only have to be told once, and then I can remember what to do on my own. Equipped with the proper investigative tools, I can often figure out a solution on my own.
-- Budgeting of resources and funds. I am not a CPA, nor do I have practical exprience in managing a business budget or anything, but I know how to conserve and keep track of things.
Weaknesses:
-- I hate dealing with people. I am uncomfortable with the "service" situation in which I work (people have to go through me to get something they want). This becomes more tense when it involves money (library fines and the like). It's not the hell of retail but I am not a "people person" by any means. This also means I am ill-suited to supervise anyone else (especially when they don't do things right).
-- I do not improvise well. I like to fall back on the things I know, and if I need to come up with something new, to be able to proceed at my own pace from a known starting place. If I am put into a situation where I perceive myself to be out of control through a lack of adequate knowledge about the situation and what might happen, I can panic. I like to know in advance what's going to be expected of me.
-- I am a very poor teacher, very impatient with people that do not already know things or can't figure it out the first time like I can. I can write explanations but do not communicate them orally very well.
-- Get frustrated very quickly if I can't do something right the first time. In a work situation where it needs to be done I would obviously not simply quit trying, unlike the rest of my life, but it would be stress I don't want.
I've gotten really distracted a bunch of times so I'm going to pause here because I've forgotten exactly where I was going. Today is a lot busier than the Thursday of finals week has any right to be. I fully expect to turn up well over 50,000 hours of student contact. That means we have been busy this quarter. (This is the hours in the quarter that we had bodies in seats in the computer lab - 90 stations times 70 open hours per week times 12 weeks in a quarter = 75,600 possible hours if we were at full capacity all day every day, and that doesn't account for all our videotape circulation.)
tyrsalvia, me taking stock of myself with regards to work. Do not feel obligated to read it. Question the first. If I had the option not to work, would I take it?
Answer the first. DUH! There are so many other things I want to do with my time. This is also the major reason I had myself sterilized: children would take up far too much of my time for me to be able to do the other things I want to do with my life. I want to be able to spend my time on what I determine it should be spent on, not have anyone else demanding it of me. I worry as it is that I don't seem to be "vast" enough to focus on more than one area at once, not and get anything accomplished beyond the most trivial things. Work complicates this situation. So if I could opt out, I definitely would. That is not an option at this point, however, and so we continue...
Strengths:
-- Organization, time management, memory for and attention to detail. I'm fine with deadlines so long as I feel that the task is within my abilities. Art classes sucked - I had to be creative on demand and I can't do that - but the other aspects of scheduling school actually gave me a kind of perverse pleasure. I like making to-do lists and breaking up reading into a set number of pages per day (so that I don't have to cram) and that sort of stuff. Call me Virgo. ;)
-- English communication. I am not a swell public speaker, but of course my English is fluent. My writing is painfully clear (I have a tendency to over-detail, which I need to rein in), and deathly correct if I am inclined to make it so. I can organize and construct an essay or any other such piece of writing. I almost never use rough drafts because I don't need them.
-- Computer use skills. I am not a "techie" but I can build up a desktop from scratch and am overall very savvy in terms of daily use of the thing.
-- Ability to follow directions, fast learner. Provided the instructions are clear I generally only have to be told once, and then I can remember what to do on my own. Equipped with the proper investigative tools, I can often figure out a solution on my own.
-- Budgeting of resources and funds. I am not a CPA, nor do I have practical exprience in managing a business budget or anything, but I know how to conserve and keep track of things.
Weaknesses:
-- I hate dealing with people. I am uncomfortable with the "service" situation in which I work (people have to go through me to get something they want). This becomes more tense when it involves money (library fines and the like). It's not the hell of retail but I am not a "people person" by any means. This also means I am ill-suited to supervise anyone else (especially when they don't do things right).
-- I do not improvise well. I like to fall back on the things I know, and if I need to come up with something new, to be able to proceed at my own pace from a known starting place. If I am put into a situation where I perceive myself to be out of control through a lack of adequate knowledge about the situation and what might happen, I can panic. I like to know in advance what's going to be expected of me.
-- I am a very poor teacher, very impatient with people that do not already know things or can't figure it out the first time like I can. I can write explanations but do not communicate them orally very well.
-- Get frustrated very quickly if I can't do something right the first time. In a work situation where it needs to be done I would obviously not simply quit trying, unlike the rest of my life, but it would be stress I don't want.
I've gotten really distracted a bunch of times so I'm going to pause here because I've forgotten exactly where I was going. Today is a lot busier than the Thursday of finals week has any right to be. I fully expect to turn up well over 50,000 hours of student contact. That means we have been busy this quarter. (This is the hours in the quarter that we had bodies in seats in the computer lab - 90 stations times 70 open hours per week times 12 weeks in a quarter = 75,600 possible hours if we were at full capacity all day every day, and that doesn't account for all our videotape circulation.)