Today is Saturday, and I will be working for my main employer. This means a 12 hour day in a cubicle, with about three other people for company, wondering when stuff will break. I will then go home and repeat this Sunday, and then for a few hours again on Monday.
I am in a crisis management position for my employer, which is a fancy way of saying when stuff breaks, I attempt to fix it. Most things I can fix by myself. Some things require a few phone calls. The perks of the job are that when there is nothing going on, I have a license to read.
During football season, we all try to keep up with our teams, which can be difficult since we can't hang out in the break room for four hours. Since we are deprived of cable tv in our immediate workspace, we often utilize the espn site's Gamecast application to follow games.
The place I work in is as secure as a military installation. There are security mechanisms all over the place. One co-worker who isn't in the same department referred to mine as the "Top Secret Center." He wasn't far from the truth. I do the best I can to keep my work life separate from my personal, and also go to great lengths to protect my workplace. I don't work for the CIA, but many corporations have to place employees in positions of trust and don't like that trust to be broken.
All in all, though I am sometimes frustrated, I've enjoyed the position I have there, and I like my management, and the compensation is good. That's important to have at a work place, and I feel lucky I have that.
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