Finding myself in other blogs.

You know I don't often plug other people's blog entries here, but there are two that really hit me today. One was The Hacker Work Ethic and Personal Development Texts by Tom Bridge about how the information workers of today don't live the Puritan work ethic, but have their own. I identified with a lot of it.

A second post I found enlightening was by Mike McBride when he talked about his experiences as tech support about "a feeling that the employee is serving everyone else, never being served." That spoke to me as well.

In my organization I am still one of the youngest "professionals" and I am doing a lot of tech support. Both of these posts hit some of the things I have been feeling these days. I am expected to work like the others work and instead of being evaluated on results, I feel I am evaluated on the process. I also feel at times that I serve everyone else and never get served. I also do a lot of training and I know how it feels to get the heat for someone not knowing something, no matter how many times I've tried to teach them.

My thanks to these two gentlemen who unknowingly gave me words to describe why I was not in the most jovial of moods these past few days. Who says there's nothing human about the Internet?