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livingdebI've been spending the last couple of days doing boring urgent work that I don't know how to do. Boring work I can deal with because I can take breaks--boring urgent work, not so much. Especially since I have to learn by trial and error or whatever.
What's so urgent? For every day I don't finish each one of these tasks, error messages are flung upon the powerless.
If I ever finish,* I can get started on the boring urgent work that I do know how to do, then the interesting urgent work that I don't know how to do. Unless I get another pile of boring urgent work that I do know how to do.
Meanwhile, I keep getting interrupted the whole time by urgent interesting puzzle-solving work that I quite like to do. Thank goodness.
*Yesterday morning, I thought I would finish after lunch. Yesterday evening I thought I would finish today. Now I think I will finish tomorrow. (That's so cute!)
Lesson of the Day - When people need a tool to see how they're doing, they would rather have a crappy product that is a pain to deal with but can be made to work and at least makes sense than a product that works perfectly but is so convoluted you can't even understand it.
Those are the only choices with our current system when you have an extremely convoluted system of requirements to code into it. I have an idea on how to make the convoluted, perfectly working version have a display option that is easily comprehensible in our new system. I really hope it can work, but maybe I'm hoping for too much. The display project doesn't happen for over a year, so suspense will be loitering for some time.
Quote of the Day - "If they want me to come to a meeting, they should have it in my cube."
What's so urgent? For every day I don't finish each one of these tasks, error messages are flung upon the powerless.
If I ever finish,* I can get started on the boring urgent work that I do know how to do, then the interesting urgent work that I don't know how to do. Unless I get another pile of boring urgent work that I do know how to do.
Meanwhile, I keep getting interrupted the whole time by urgent interesting puzzle-solving work that I quite like to do. Thank goodness.
*Yesterday morning, I thought I would finish after lunch. Yesterday evening I thought I would finish today. Now I think I will finish tomorrow. (That's so cute!)
Lesson of the Day - When people need a tool to see how they're doing, they would rather have a crappy product that is a pain to deal with but can be made to work and at least makes sense than a product that works perfectly but is so convoluted you can't even understand it.
Those are the only choices with our current system when you have an extremely convoluted system of requirements to code into it. I have an idea on how to make the convoluted, perfectly working version have a display option that is easily comprehensible in our new system. I really hope it can work, but maybe I'm hoping for too much. The display project doesn't happen for over a year, so suspense will be loitering for some time.
Quote of the Day - "If they want me to come to a meeting, they should have it in my cube."