Things related to work
It’s been an usually hectic year and I haven’t had much free time available to contemplate it all. Our son has grown like weed. Still hasn’t uttered a comprehensible word. My wife’s worried about this, but I’m not. Like all things in life, it’ll come in due course. I imagine some time next year, he’ll be twittering like a bird with all the newly discovered words filling his head. My wife’s worries in this matter…
One particular trait that all my employers in the past and present like about me is that I’m fast which they equate to efficient. I try to be decisive when there are problems that need to be hurdled as quickly as possible. For a long time I thought that was good enough until I began to experience moments where fast wasn’t such a good thing. Allow me to draw an analogy. Think about driving. Fast…
We tend to give credit entirely to the the person who are successful in their career and their lives. We often forget that it has as much to do with the support of family, friends and co-workers as it does with their own hard-work and initiative. Take my career for example. It was my parent’s support that helped me to get through college. There were times when I felt overwhelmed and inadequate. My parents being…
If you’re like me and spend a large portion of your day using a computer (technology in general) as a tool to earn your bread, you’re among the people whose number are growing yearly. Our economy is depending more on people who work smarter and less who work harder. They call it the knowledge economy and whether you agree with it or not, it is here to stay. I was semi-aware of this, but I…
I have been inundated with work recently. Â I felt it was more than I could handle. Â That feeling is horrible for someone who requires mastery of all within his domain. Â If you didn’t get the hint, that would be me. Â I then asked myself a very simple question. Â Why did I want to become an engineer? Â How did I go from a desire to explore the universe [1] to being a glorified tinkerer? The earliest…