Work, work, work, work.

[tsaiko]

So when I'm not working on my thesis, I'm doing stuff for my job. I went down to attend a meeting in the office as opposed to working remotely, which is what I often do. As soon as I got there, I promptly broke ArcGIS. Two 1/2 hours later they managed to fix it. Good times.

While this was going on, I had my employee review with my manager. Not only did I get an excellent review, but my manager also put in for a substantial pay increase. How much? About a $2.50 an hour pay increase. WOO! That will be nice when it goes through.

I am getting ready to start another project. I thought at first I wouldn't like project work, but I actually find the beginning-middle-endness of it rather soothing. If I get involved in something I don't particularly like (OMG, no more inventorying), I just have to wait a few months for something else to come along. I don't want to ever be a contract worker, but I like this aspect of it. I also like the working on my own part though I still prefer having a strong manager with definite goals.

Finally, I will be doing a presentation on GIS for the entire division in March. They really want to start incorporating it more into what they do with different projects. The problem is, they don't really realize what it can do and how it can help. This is going to be interesting. Especially since I've already had to explain to people the difference between a point, a line, and a polygon more than once. -_-

Comments

[oneiric22.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the raise! More money is always good.

If it makes you feel better, I got to explain the difference between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds at least three times in my very very basic GPS class today. It was a much more difficult class than my first one. Many of the students had no idea why their bosses made them sign up for it, so they challenged me as to why they were there. Like I cared. Only one out of 15 people brought units with them. I had one guy who kept complaining that the class wasn't in depth enough, another guy trying to ask questions about things maybe three people in the room could follow, and a whole lot of people who thought I would be teaching them how to use a Garmin Nuvi. Oi.

I later found out that the guy who wanted me to cover more advanced topics was the guy we found out was trying to do flood mapping with Google Earth a couple of months ago. We were all stunned by that one.

At least I get to go to a Spatial Analyst class for the rest of the week! :D

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Oh I do not envy you having to teach a basic or intro. course. I spent 2 years teaching Intro. Geology labs. 98% of the people could care less and just wanted an A because "I was told this was an easy A" class, 1% actually worked, and the other 1% were smartasses. Ugh.

It kind of frightens me that these people didn't know the difference between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds. Do they even realize that latitude and longitude are two different things?

Okay, I admit it. I about hurt myself laughing when you said that the guy was trying to do flood mapping with Google Earth. Wow. Talk about using the wrong tool for the job.

Yeah for spatial analysis! I kind of wish I knew more about that, though given my hodge-podge education in GIS, I probably do and just don't know it.