What Are You Doing Right Now
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Vendor pushed a software update to one of my customers last night. Got an email this morning that it failed and they needed me to finish it manually.
10 minutes later, site is up and running - and I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet. -
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
There's always something that needs to be turned into a script.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
I take it nothing became of that other job?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
I take it nothing became of that other job?
it did not. They wouldnt return my call, and when they did they said they were going a different route.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
There's always something that needs to be turned into a script.
I should probably learn how to script first ( i dont want to be a script kiddy)
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
There's always something that needs to be turned into a script.
I should probably learn how to script first ( i dont want to be a script kiddy)
That's how you start. You go take something that exists and then tear it apart and understand it.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
There's always something that needs to be turned into a script.
I should probably learn how to script first ( i dont want to be a script kiddy)
That's how you start. You go take something that exists and then tear it apart and understand it.
I still do that
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's how you start. You go take something that exists and then tear it apart and understand it.
100% correct
Shameless plug: How I Learned PowerShell Scripting
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
Unless your job forbids you to do extra stuff (yeah, I've seen it), this is when you should be so excited that you get to pull out the certification book that you are working through, watch that YouTube educational series you haven't had time for, or as you mentioned, start scripting things. There's no limit to the things that you should be just waiting for a free moment to do that are huge for your career advancement, while also positive for your current job (so that you don't get in trouble.)
That that Network+, then move on to more and more certs if you have time. Figure out PowerShell. Learn other cool tools. Write articles, watch videos, blog about your learning, etc.
I used to work the most boring job in the universe. But the job was boring, I was not bored. I worked my tail off getting certified in anything and everything while doing that job (it was an overnight job, more security than anything else.) I built my career on the few years that I had there. I learned so much because it was "boring".
Boring = opportunity for you to really do what matters most.
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Guest doggie.
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Morning meeting time. Back to back meetings till afternoon!
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Major morning meeting number two.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.
Unless your job forbids you to do extra stuff (yeah, I've seen it), this is when you should be so excited that you get to pull out the certification book that you are working through, watch that YouTube educational series you haven't had time for, or as you mentioned, start scripting things. There's no limit to the things that you should be just waiting for a free moment to do that are huge for your career advancement, while also positive for your current job (so that you don't get in trouble.)
That that Network+, then move on to more and more certs if you have time. Figure out PowerShell. Learn other cool tools. Write articles, watch videos, blog about your learning, etc.
I used to work the most boring job in the universe. But the job was boring, I was not bored. I worked my tail off getting certified in anything and everything while doing that job (it was an overnight job, more security than anything else.) I built my career on the few years that I had there. I learned so much because it was "boring".
Boring = opportunity for you to really do what matters most.
I feel like even if your job forbids it, you can spin at improving your current job during downtime. It's one of the things I do without asking permission and I've never had a single issue ever. I have been asked about it before by one boss who thought I trained a little too much, but it's not something they can really stop. A boss yelling at someone for training never looks good in any form. It's not a battle they are usually willing to fight.
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just got my first cup of coffee today - someone from out of town decided the break room would be there private office for the first 2 hours of the day .
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Major morning meeting number two.
Meeting huh -
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just got my first cup of coffee today - someone from out of town decided the break room would be there private office for the first 2 hours of the day .
Ouch - don't they know that the office doesn't run on doughnuts alone? Coffee is the booster fuel of the day.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just got my first cup of coffee today - someone from out of town decided the break room would be there private office for the first 2 hours of the day .
Ouch - don't they know that the office doesn't run on doughnuts alone? Coffee is the booster fuel of the day.
I have no idea who the person is, but he was setup with his laptop on a zoom call at 8:00am this morning. with both doors closed. Couldn't get in there long enough to get a cup of coffee and it was "very important meeting"
there's 3 rooms that are completely un used right now.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just got my first cup of coffee today - someone from out of town decided the break room would be there private office for the first 2 hours of the day .
Ouch - don't they know that the office doesn't run on doughnuts alone? Coffee is the booster fuel of the day.
I have no idea who the person is, but he was setup with his laptop on a zoom call at 8:00am this morning. with both doors closed. Couldn't get in there long enough to get a cup of coffee and it was "very important meeting"
there's 3 rooms that are completely un used right now.
with desksUh - How Rude... (boot)
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/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. .
