Shortform #110 Studying | I vent some about work, but not...intensely, more of a light venting.
I was approved to work four 10 hour days this week meaning that I have Friday entirely free from my current employer! Huzzah! Huzzah! I will be spending the majority of the day studying for the professional cert I take exams for at the end of this month plus will meet with my co-organizer to figure out upcoming meetups. I am grateful that I’ve been able to study some at work, though not usually more than twenty minutes per day, still...the extra time there and the time I’ve been putting in at home have helped, I feel confident in my competency to take the certification exams at the end of this month.
Studying is nice :) I continue to be somewhat ambivalent about my current profession, but I am passionate about many parts of it at least, and it pays well. Still, I’m happy to be pursuing other things simultaneously (yay for organizing, yay for writing, etc.), that helps me stay motivated and handle some of the more boring or annoying parts of my current job as I work to “level up” the rungs of my profession.
Replacing computers all day long is incredibly boring. The conversations I have with people & who I’m helping out and who they serve, those are the rewarding parts of the job. I do love when I get to dive into the technical weeds and do some real troubleshooting, but that’s not as frequent an occurrence as I’d like. Thank goodness for studying, deliberate practice, and continuing to learn nonstop!
Shortform #110 Studying | I vent some about work, but not...intensely, more of a light venting.
I was approved to work four 10 hour days this week meaning that I have Friday entirely free from my current employer! Huzzah! Huzzah! I will be spending the majority of the day studying for the professional cert I take exams for at the end of this month plus will meet with my co-organizer to figure out upcoming meetups. I am grateful that I’ve been able to study some at work, though not usually more than twenty minutes per day, still...the extra time there and the time I’ve been putting in at home have helped, I feel confident in my competency to take the certification exams at the end of this month.
Studying is nice :) I continue to be somewhat ambivalent about my current profession, but I am passionate about many parts of it at least, and it pays well. Still, I’m happy to be pursuing other things simultaneously (yay for organizing, yay for writing, etc.), that helps me stay motivated and handle some of the more boring or annoying parts of my current job as I work to “level up” the rungs of my profession.
Replacing computers all day long is incredibly boring. The conversations I have with people & who I’m helping out and who they serve, those are the rewarding parts of the job. I do love when I get to dive into the technical weeds and do some real troubleshooting, but that’s not as frequent an occurrence as I’d like. Thank goodness for studying, deliberate practice, and continuing to learn nonstop!
Let’s hope that the computers will feel the same way about replacing humans.
Indeed, indeed!
Machines with strong utility functions against humans would not be a good outcome for our species :(