Last week I spent more time than I wanted to finishing the dumb report I mentioned in an earlier pubski. Toggl tells me the whole report took me almost 14 hours, most of it wasted on meetings. Could've written it myself in an afternoon, but no, let's spend an average of 19,5 seconds debating each word in the damn report, which is only 40% of the grade of an insignificant course. But - it is my last normal course and my last university report ever. Facebook did one of those 'hey remember this?' posts the other day and it was about my graduation from high school five years ago. On the one hand it feels like forever ago, on the other hand it's only five years and I feel like they were more important than all the years that came before it. Naturally, the picture made me re-examine and reconsider my future. In a few months I'll finally be free to do...what, exactly? I have options but I also feel like I haven't found The Thing yet. You know, The Thing You'll Do For The Rest Of Your Life. I doubt I'll ever find it, but that doesn't keep me from searching for it.
As annoying as it is... that will prepare you for the nonsense that is the working world. I've been on temporary assignment at work, designing some metrics and KPIs for a new business unit. I gave my proposal, the VP shat all over it (as expected) spending 17 minutes (I was watching the clock) repeatedly saying "I don't understand this. This is all wrong. Help me understand. This makes no sense. I don't understand this".... She wouldn't even shut up long enough for me or my boss to explain... so we hung up and she sent us her ideas... which were just different vocabulary for the EXACT SAME DATA. So I just changed the names on all of mine - the background data gathering and calculations are the same - and resubmitted to her last night... Arguing semantics can be taxing... but unfortunately, I think it's part of.... life... Sorry for the rant... It was my (perhaps inappropriate) way of putting my hand on your shoulder and commiserating "I hear ya... we're all in this together, keep your chin up"but no, let's spend an average of 19,5 seconds debating each word in the damn report
Debating vocabulary and semantics in a report is an exhausting experience.
I can work around lazy people and inexperienced people. With resentment, I can get unmotivated people to work. This group had someone in it who couldn't be argued with, which is my kryptonite. If I present a slew of arguments why my proposed idea is better and you can't articulate a single good counter argument, yet you still need to be have it your way? This ain't Burger King, ffs.
Every young person ever. If you don't stop looking, chances are, you're gonna find it. But hey, what do I know... Except, that's what people who found it tell everyone. Bill Watterson, for example, has something to say on the matter. You know, the guy who did Calvin & Hobbs and refused to sell out his creation (read the actual mental_floss interview at your own peril: it's heavy on the eyes).I doubt I'll ever find it, but that doesn't keep me from searching for it.