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Sep. 12th, 2005 04:08 amThree things occurred to me today, during my last day at work.
1) It's been almost ten years since I've been at a job on my last day, and known it was my last day there.
- My last few jobs have seen me laid off unexpectedly. The last time I made it my choice, I was doing tech support for a small ISP in town. And it was because I was moving to Virginia. In fact, my last day was just before my birthday.
2) I loathe quitting something I'm good at.
- Part of me is downright pissed that I'm not going to get to improve my productivity scores or get listened to again and be able to raise my objectivity/research ratings. I did good work, dammit, and I will now miss the proof thereof.
3) I now feel useless, in that I am not remotely helping society.
- At least when I did Ipsos/AP surveys, I was getting public opinion stuff. Today, I was on an Avon survey that was disguised as a general makeup survey. Granted, it was better than beer, but not by much. And it was a billion times better than an ASI survey, so I'm glad for that. But it would have been nice to do an AP poll or Air Canada Jazz or something that I enjoyed or meant something, you know? (That recent Bush approval poll, BTW? Done by Ipsos/AP, by the Montreal call centre. In fact, if you check out the site, you can download the PDF. It's got lots of neat questions. I did the August version of it, and this is the September version.)
So I did five completes tonight, which puts me roughly around 1.35 per hour for the day. That's much better than the 0.64 average per hour they wanted us to aim for. :)
Then I had coffee, or, rather, hot chocolate with JB.
Then I came home. Talked on the phone. Watched bad TV. Ate nightmeal. And am going to go to bed soon, because I have to get to school at a reasonable hour tomorrow so I can buy my Italian book and do my Italian homework before Italian class.
Friendslocked entry coming up.
1) It's been almost ten years since I've been at a job on my last day, and known it was my last day there.
- My last few jobs have seen me laid off unexpectedly. The last time I made it my choice, I was doing tech support for a small ISP in town. And it was because I was moving to Virginia. In fact, my last day was just before my birthday.
2) I loathe quitting something I'm good at.
- Part of me is downright pissed that I'm not going to get to improve my productivity scores or get listened to again and be able to raise my objectivity/research ratings. I did good work, dammit, and I will now miss the proof thereof.
3) I now feel useless, in that I am not remotely helping society.
- At least when I did Ipsos/AP surveys, I was getting public opinion stuff. Today, I was on an Avon survey that was disguised as a general makeup survey. Granted, it was better than beer, but not by much. And it was a billion times better than an ASI survey, so I'm glad for that. But it would have been nice to do an AP poll or Air Canada Jazz or something that I enjoyed or meant something, you know? (That recent Bush approval poll, BTW? Done by Ipsos/AP, by the Montreal call centre. In fact, if you check out the site, you can download the PDF. It's got lots of neat questions. I did the August version of it, and this is the September version.)
So I did five completes tonight, which puts me roughly around 1.35 per hour for the day. That's much better than the 0.64 average per hour they wanted us to aim for. :)
Then I had coffee, or, rather, hot chocolate with JB.
Then I came home. Talked on the phone. Watched bad TV. Ate nightmeal. And am going to go to bed soon, because I have to get to school at a reasonable hour tomorrow so I can buy my Italian book and do my Italian homework before Italian class.
Friendslocked entry coming up.
