Hi fellow Reflectors,
Today I wanted to reflect on the beauty and challenges of work!
Work is something that many people do but many people do not enjoy. I'm a bit of a strange case in that I enjoy working, and the work that I do I get a lot of value from because of the things that I do and am able to do. I won't say for sure if I was given the option to not work, if I would not work. I enjoy waking up every day for the work that I do, no bullshit. Some days are tough for sure, but life isn't supposed to be easy in my opinion!
This type of work has allowed me to combine many years of experience and different jobs and roll it into one. I don't want to go into the specific nature of the job, only that it's on the tech side.
This week has been one hell of a week let me tell you! I've gotten my ass kicked five ways from Sunday and I know it's nothing compared to what some people do but it kind of felt like what happened at Twatter after Elon took over. The people that loved the work and got their nose to the grind stone felt refreshed and really loved getting to dive into some serious work! I don't have that type of job necessarily but the things that occurred this week at work certainly made me feel like it!
I'm never one to shy away from work, in a reasonable fashion of course. I'm not going to sign myself up for a bunch of extra work knowing that it's going to end up crashing and burning into an inferno and likely hurt my prospects on the job, as well as cause unnecessary headaches for me in many parts of my life. I do however love to dig into things! I have a hard time getting away from that, especially when we encounter an issue.
We just brought a project live this week and we ran into some pretty significant issues. The issues were important for the customer and it required a lot of digging and grunt work and the people I work with are great, but they all have dozens of other things to do as well. I couldn't really get a lot of assistance despite screaming from the rooftops so I did what I knew I could do, even though I shouldn't technically do it according to my job description: I dug in!
This is where the fun came in for me! Lol. In my previous role, I was the one to dig into issues and figure shit out as best I could. It's a lot of work but damn is it a lot of fun as well! I love being given a problem to solve in an environment and a) figure out the root cause, if possible b) come up with a workaround in the meantime and c) get it properly documented so that it doesn't burn us again in the future.
In my current role right now, I don't get to do much of those things except try to document what I can so that it can be passed off to others and we can learn from it and be better overall.
With the situation I was in this week though, I had to jump in with both feet and spend hours with the teams to corral the right folks into the room to help us and do some flipchart type shit to discover the issue, what is causing it, is there a workaround, and what do we need to do to fix it. It brought me back to why I fell in love with this type of job!
A few months ago, I put in, informally, for a job where I wouldn't be doing the work that I'm doing now but would jump over to the issue diagnosis part but they weren't interested in hiring someone with experience, only entry level, for whatever reason. I think it's absolutely foolish but whatever, I'm not management so I can't tell them that what they are saying is a load of crap.
With the events of this past week, I know that it's hopefully going to prove my worth to them and show them that I can definitely do the job that I'm asking to have them let me do, they just need to get off their butts and get to the right level of seniority that the role would deserve. Granted, it's not likely going to happen as one thing about companies, they move at the pace of a snail with these things honestly. It was good to prove to my leaders though that I'm not just a person who can run projects, but someone who can figure shit out!
I'm not tooting my own horn here, I don't think, but thinking how much I missed getting into the meat of an issue like I used to do all the time! Granted, it's sometimes pretty stressful to be doing that all the time but I think I could right the ship in one way or another to make it so that it's smoother, hopefully! I likely won't get the chance at the role though, lol so it's wishful thinking. Still felt great to get back to my roots though!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI.
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