[Today’s run: 7 miles]
I’ve been working at my current job for 15 years as of the end of this month.
I work as a database administrator and systems administrator. I’m not really strong on either one, but I can usually figure things out or get some help.
The thing I have enjoyed doing is building a system , it’s various hooks and tendrils and pieces. The system gets the job done and usually runs, more or less, by itself.
I’ve built in some warnings and cross-checking and other stuff so that I will usually find out if something is wrong. And then I can just sit back and let it run. I do a lot of that.
Sometimes I will get a call for an adjustment or change or some new piece. And I then craft a new piece and put it in place, or make some change to the existing pieces.
It all runs pretty well, if I may say so.
But then I find that some part isn’t working well, or some thing I didn’t think of. Sometimes, frequently!, I’ll find that either I had put in a trap for that or I was lucky and it just had never come up before.
But there are some parts that I don’t enjoy working on. And those can get a bit gruesome. I don’t want to change them or figure out the “right” thing. So I just patch around it or put it on the bottom of the to-do pile. What I’m supposed to do is clean that stuff up. What I’d rather do is move on to something else.
I think they might make me stay until I get that stuff cleaned up. Bummer.