A general update

[pyat]

Data rekeying continues to be very easy yet intense and fiddly work. It's not difficult, though it requires constant concentration over stretches of hours, and I find myself in odd moods once work is done. The pay is excellent, even though it quickly became clear that it was excellent because we're doing the bureaucratic equivalent of cleaning out a septic tank.


There is absolutely no out-of-office job stress following me home. I've been sleeping like a rock. The commute is easy, as I take the 407 toll highway most of the way and drive during hours when traffic on the 403 stretch is easing. I could do this sort of thing for a long time, which sort of solidifies my concept of myself as a sort of natural filing clerk or lirbarian, born in the wrong decade.

Comments

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

You're a time traveller too? Why didn't you tell me?

[relee.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, that's what we need... More filing!

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[athelind.livejournal.com]

You know, when I was working for the temp agency, I found that there was an inverse ratio between the complexity of the job and the pay rate. The job that paid the best was the "Odd Jobs Around The Office Nobody Else Has Time For" (filing, shredding, making promo materials); after that, I kept getting ever-lower pay rates for jobs that wanted more and more complex and specialized brainwork in banking and law offices and stuff.

If I'd wanted to go into any of those fields as a long-term thing, if I was looking for a career in those areas, maybe I would have been willing to take the pay hit for "The Opportunity". As it was -- they wanted a whole lotta value for not a lot of valuta.

Frankly, I preferred "the bureaucratic equivalent of cleaning out a septic tank." It was not only less stressful, but I liked going into an office that treated me like I was doing them a favor, rather than the other way around.

[mrs-dm.livejournal.com]

Are you able to say, listen to some background music on an iPod? Just to make it more pleasant?