I’m dreading going to work today. I know what awaits me there. A letter sequencing machine which I barely know how to use is beckoning me. I hate using stuff that I am ignorant about. I just don’t have enough experience on it to feel comfortable. I hate having to ask others what to do and feeling stupid and clueless as a result. The flipside is of course that if you don’t use it you will never get used to it! Ahh, conundrums. Don’t you hate life sometimes?
It is really no problem. The boss will tee up someone to help me out if I need it. But I hate needing the help. I will have a crack at it on my own today and see how I go. No one at work thinks I am a rocket scientist so why worry? I am practiced in looking silly.
I could blow work off for the day but if I didn’t go to work every time I felt like staying home then I would never be there! I will push on. I will take the heat. I will survive.
So, as I am feeling a bit down I have decided to be very self-indulgent today and publish a new “photo of the day”. This one is getting a bit ancient. New Zealand, Rotorua in fact in 2007. The motel we stayed at just happened to be on the intersection of Sumner Street and the main hotel strip. I figured it to be a bit ironic but it was really nothing more than coincidence of course. Linda took several photos of me standing under the sign when we got there and again the next morning. I don’t know why. But here I am for you all to see. A nice place Rotorua. Not to be missed if you are ever in the Land of the Long White Cloud.
Any regular reader of this blog will notice a slight difference in it’s design lately. I figured after four years I needed a bit of an upgrade so I have done away with the old Blogger template and installed a new one. Gives it a fresher, cleaner look I think. Just what it needed. Just what I need.
Big changes are coming at work. The company is on track to lose money for the first time in 30 years. The shake up will come in September but the details are a bit foggy. I hope they chop the dead wood and give us all redundancies. I doubt I will have such luck.
What would I do if I suddenly found myself out of work? It is a bit of a scary thought. A skill-less person like me is like a lilo on the ocean, drifting with no land in sight. At this stage of my life I am comfortable. No debts. No problems although there are a few little clouds on the horizon. I am sure I would find some casual work somewhere.
I was driving past the shopping centre in Tuggeranong yesterday and all the public servants on their morning tea breaks were wandering out of their rabbit warrens and heading across to the mall to indulge in coffee and snacks in that brief moment of freedom they have to spare. It occurred to me that getting out of my current job and into such an occupation would be but small respite. An improvement to be sure but being stuck in an office all day doing mindless, boring work, listening to and being ordered around by the same type who I take instruction from today isn’t much of an improvement. I would like to stretch myself further than that.
Life goes on while we make other plans. I will push on. I will take the heat. I will survive.
Have a nice day.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 