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Anniversary = Aneurysm?

On » August 14, 2009 //
Today is my three-year anniversary at my current job and sometimes I really wonder about how I ended up doing the work that I do.

Today I have spent almost the entire day editing video podcasts ... and using QuickTime of all things! Editing the videos from the conference would not take so long if:
  1. I didn't have to use QuickTime....there's got to be a better program.
  2. I didn't have to manually enter all the chapter timestamps one by one.
  3. I didn't have a million other things coming across my desk that are all equally "URGENT". (My boss thinks that everything is urgent and I'm then left to decipher the degree of urgency based on what/how much is bold, in italics or bright red, to name a few.)
Mon Dieu, c'est frustrant!

I have a degree in Sociological/Anthropological Science. I love research, statistics, books and archives. Yet I spend my day editing videos, updating/maintaining/redesigning the website?!? WTF!? How did I end up here?

I suppose that with the economy in the state that it's in, I should be happy to have a job at all but I just wish that I had I job that had some semblance of relativity to my studies because this learning as you go is killing me. Everything takes so much longer and if I'm going to be completely honest my brain really doesn't know what to do with all the techie-type information.

In fact my brain is starting to hurt and I think that I'm actually losing other information because I am trying to cram so much in there at the moment. Between figuring out the video editing, the web design code, my graphic design classes (that work is sending me to) and my own classes to finish my Public Relations & Media Communications program, I'm going to start losing some crucial information! I just hope that it doesn't happen at an inopportune moment. Like forgetting how to drive while I'm on the highway or forgetting how my feet work when I'm at the top of a stairwell.

Thank goodness it's Friday and I don't actually have to do anything on the weekend but if you don't hear from me it's because I've probably forgotten what a computer is and am cowering behind the sofa because my MSN/Facebook/Gmail has come to life on its own with emoticons and instant messages.

*sigh* Fingers crossed that I'm still here Monday.

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