Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Boring!!!

Well, it seems that there's nothing much to do this night, since I stepped into this office this evening, at 6.00pm, until now, I have nothing else to do seems my works is just only repair and restoring one of a user's personal pc available. The pc is too old compared to what you should have this days, maybe about a decade ago and running a Windows ME version. What I have to do is to restoring it back to normal, as its OS has gone haywired with the missing rundll32 file and some corruption in its kernel part. Whilst taking a long time to backup and reformat, I have to wait and spend nothing, while writing this blog to fill my times, as times goes by. Its hard to tell you how I feel here, but as a work and a job, there's nothing more to say. I wonder what its like to be if I am a real Software Engineer at the other place, whether it is the same as here - waiting until nowhere or got some stuff to fill at each time. I've had an experience at the practical place last time, where there are a critical times where everybody needs to works hard to find the solutions to complete the system development under the very tight deadline. The work is quite tough, and yet challenging. It uses almost all resources available in my brain, like if it was a CPU, it will read 100% one time. To me, this is fun. I like working in this way. Yes, it is a stress to somebody, but, I will found this to be a part of my joy of the work and I will manage this to be fun, but with some limits. I miss this kind of work very much. Not like when there is a work, then only we did it and no management aspect of work style. Then, the rest of time we spend nothing and doing our own activities. When the tempo of my body drops down, and then when there are a critical work arrives, there could be a shock to me and I need to build up my energy again. This is difficult because it could take some times.

If this can be done very fast, then its ok. I will be able to speed up myself between the works and idle. Alias, my body sometimes seems to pick up slower so far, but I don't know why. What makes me woke lately from my current waitings were wondering me those days. However, I'll try to manage to stabilize it now because this is the place of the aggressive ones, not the slow motions. Otherwise, I need to find the suitable job, but, it seems most jobs in this fields seems like having the energatic kind of peoples. Theres no place to accept the people who likes the steam era style of works. Yes IT world is very fast. Not only the machine, but also humans. Humans needs to acts and reacts very fast, along with the machines to do well in IT business. If one part slows apart, then we would fail. That's how fast we are in the field of IT.

What happens to my body nowadays, is, sometimes I could only focus at one item per time, while this field requires me to do multitasking, just like computer does, as humans need to do, where switching from one task to another is possible. I don't know why did my brain stops working when I switched from one task to another, and how to prevent them. This makes me feel boring, because when I'm in a state of idle, the energy level becomes very low until I become unconsious. This makes me feel rather sleepy, then the boring begans. I won't take a lot of coffee instead, but doing exercise is better.

One other things, multitasking is important. Working in the IT field requires this skill to manage the tasks. For those or my friends who are in the same field, how did they get into it I don't know but to me this is the only way to cope with this situation. Stay alert, be alert. For those who works in this area like me, maybe this is the useful tips from me and if you feel that you have the other ways, please let me know, ok!

I'm getting tired when I failed to manage my energy level. I don't know how and what is the 'fuel' in order to get stabilized my energy - some person watch the movies at their desktop, some listening to the music. As for me, I don't find my suitable way to do it. Maybe I have the different ways. I need to search it in order to run smoothly like the fastest processor available. Not to hard to have it, or I will 'hang'! This is the exercise to get me in the situation and the mood of works not to add more energy. The energy is there but how we managed it to get optimized is what I thinking about.

So I'm still researching the best way to stay in touch of my tightly bounded environment where I couldn't miss even a bit. What could be yours? If you have any idea, please post a comment!