I just started working at a fast food restaurant and am really just blown away by how much rewarding it is that my last job working at a social welfare agency “helping people.” There is almost ALWAYS something to do AND my work can be objectively measured, two things untrue of my last job.
I’m trying to figure out what I want out of life, and work, and career, and I think this is really important to me: I actually need to be DOING something, something that I have direct control over, and something that I don’t NEED to say, “Look what a good job I did” because it is transparent.
Part of the reason I think this is important to me is if these requirements are NOT met, then the job is essentially convincing OTHERS that you are good at your job and/or that they like you. If what you do is opaque, unclear, or hard to measure, you have to constantly be policing the social narrative around yourself and your work–two things I have absolutely no interest (or ability?) in doing.
What’s been your experience?
Work in IT some time. If everything is working, you’re “not doing your job.” When something goes wrong, “you’re not doing your job.” Thus is the life of an on-call worker.
Network engineer here. Learn subnetting, its apparently impossible for most. The WiFi alone is enough to keep me employed.
30+ years in the IT industry, 44 using computers.
I will go through extraordinary lengths to hardline a system with an Ethernet port just to avoid using wireless.
It’s not that I don’t know wireless - I do. And that’s the problem. Even after three decades of using it, I still consider it to be by far the most unreliable and downright skanky networking method possible.
Could be worse, could be printers on wireless !