How's work?
I'm spending my morning learning about Irish refugee laws which is pretty cool. Any second now I'll probably get a bleep to go down to the emergency department to see someone, but while it's calm down there I have to do this "chart review" which means reading through years of medical notes for a patient and summarising them, which is super boring, except that there was lots of interaction with the refugee council and that's kind of interesting. At least to me - I'm very pro-refugee and it's good to know how things work in our country.
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That's so cool and I'd love to hear what everyone is working on at the moment!
I just finished this morning translating an episode of a Nickelodeon show called The Loud House, which is one of my favourite shows that I've worked on. It's actually really funny xD and Grey DeLisle who is my fave (she's the voice of Azula in Avatar) does some of the voices! This episode was the last of the current project, but my commissioner already said I'll get more as soon as they can send it, which should be in a couple of days maybe!
Our jobs are so incredibly different but I kind of love it as well. Like seeing the diversity! (Because I didn't know you're a doctor) -
You guys have such cool work I'm eternally jealous omg.
Work is super sporadic at the moment since I only go in when they need me. I didn't go in for almost the entire month of July, actually! Which one would think would leave plenty of time for writing but~
Like I said in my intro post I wash parts in a plastics manufacturer. They come in from the shop floor in buckets and I wash and dry them. I have to wear earplugs because of the air compression machine (It's SUPER loud), but I can still play music which is great. I also do a little inspection at the same time to try and keep bad parts from going down the line.
As jobs go it isn't terribly hard and I like the people I work with for the most part (including my mom, but we work different hours in different departments), but I still kind of wish I was doing something else a little more interesting (or let's be real--laid back so I could read during slow times and get paid for it). -
It's quiet this month. We're finishing off a farming programme that TX's on the BBC next month. So that's a lot of finishing off Onlines and Grades and Audio mixes. Then onto more technical things like AS11 file making and automatic quality checks and tech reviews (told you it wasn't exciting).
We're also gearing up for a few quiz shows that are coming in soon, discussing workflows and storage, etc. Trying to offload old projects onto LTOs.
Then otherwise it's just chatting to make the day go by xD Although I probably should be making more notes for a meeting tomorrow... -
Today I'm writing one of our weekly newsletters for our main client (who is actually my boss/the CEO of our company) which is a temporary job while we hire a new newsletter person. That won't take the whole day though so I'll probably spend time working on twitter stuff for that same clieny, which mostly involves scheduling out tweets for the next few days.
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This afternoon, I have caved and started work on the thing I've been avoiding for like two months at this point, namely the bit of this application that reads in data from the database when it starts up (so that if it falls over and has to start up again, the data will still be there and nobody on the user end will notice!). I hate databases, and there is some awkward legacy stuff that means it's hard to tell which bits of data I need to load up. But it's going okay so far... I'm picking off the easiest little chunks of it first, and leaving the really nasty bit for Future Cadi.
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Currently I'm waiting for the pricing program to unfreeze so I can print next week's sale tags. Alas, it always wants to freeze up on me when I hit print. Stupid program.
My work goes on a cycle based on what week it is and what day of the week, so Wednesdays I check the final ad proof against the actual printed ads, when they come in, make adjustments for any changes, and then print, separate, and sort the ad tags so we're ready to roll when the new ad prices start on Sunday. Exciting stuff.
As for the job I actually like, the nonprofit, school's out for the summer and so are week. But on Tuesday I'm going to my site to talk to the school's teachers about our program - last year we asked them to fill out feedback forms, and one of them pointed out that they have basically no idea what we do. I'm debating putting together a PowerPoint for that, although first I should probably ask the principal if they're set up for that (although I'm sure they are, it's a school.) So I'm kind of excited about that. -
Ooh that's prety exciting, Blue!
I'm currently in an in-between phase having been done with my first ever real full time at a very productive research lab, and heading back to school end of the month. So I'm using this time as an intellectual time off and just chilling. -
@Lava ooh, cool, what did you help research?
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@BlueAfrica, we did a lot of work on cell division and for sickle cell anemia. It's under review for publication but it's a pretty neat idea to help ameliorate the effects of sickle cell anemia in certain kinds of cases. There still needs to be mouse studies and trials but it's a cool concept!
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One of the bad things about the job I'm doing currently is that you don't really see the patients' eventual outcomes or follow up. You just see them in the emergency department and then either discharge them back to the GP or refer them to one of the inpatient teams depending on what's wrong with them. Today I was thinking about a young adult I saw a few weeks ago with a really confusing presentation. It didn't really fit any explanation - schizophrenia or psychosis didn't work, nor did an undiagnosed autism or ADHD, they didn't use drugs, nothing really fitted. They were admitted to the psych unit and then I heard they'd been sent to another hospital to work up for a possible physical illness causing it.
Because Ireland has a national radiology database I thought today I would just type in their name and see if I could find their scans from the other hospital. I did - and found that they had an incurable, fatal disease. And that really sucked. Had it been schizophrenia, at least we could do something about that. At least we know what to do with mental illness these days - which is a blessing. But not what to do about this condition.
So that kind of sucked and now I wish I hadn't been curious enough to go hunting for the results xD maybe I should just pretend that everyone gets a happy ending after I see them. -
@Lava awesome! You'll have to let us know how that pans out
@StellaThomas That's definitely what I would do. That's such a bummer, but at least you do what you can to help people out. And it might have made you sad, but I'm glad you care so much about helping people that you want to know what happens to them once they're out of your care. -
@Cadi... tell me more about databases. I have a slight problem/fascination. Because I know enough back-end stuff to really break things (I like playing with SQL, but that's about the extent of it), but mostly because I end up doing a lot of informal training at work on recall and how to actually use databases effectively as an end-user.
ANYWAY. You probably play more on the level of what my brother does (computer engineer showoff, that boy is), but yeah.
Also, hi, work starts back up Monday and I am le cranky. Mostly because my position is supposed to start earlier than everyone who isn't office staff so we can get textbooks and such sorted before the kids start, right? But my site is having training. In the library. Starting Monday. There's a couple ways this could shake out, so we'll see what happens.
What's fun, though, is how many different hats I end up wearing at work. Sure, there's the expected book stuff - reading/recommendations, but then there's ordering, processing (I am the cataloging queen, and I yell when people do it wrong, because I am also an awful person but SRSLY do it right or gtfo, it's a shared database stop screwing with my results it's not *that* hard if you're sticking to copy-cataloging, c'mon), teaching research skills, and then I help run our catalog system as a front-end admin (no touchy the server, which is fine by me), because I discovered that YWS and related activities means I totally get and am good and working with the "wtf" tendencies of the system, and can explain issues to tech support easily enough that things actually get resolved. That, and dealing with user levels and permissions was really easy, and everyone else's eyes kinda glazed over while I made grabby hands. -
It looks like this is another week where I don't go in to work. I'm going to laugh if they want me to come in tomorrow, because I actually can't (my grandmother is coming to stay with us for the weekend, and will be coming on alternate weekends after that. pray for my soul).
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I'm in charge tomorrow MUAHAHAHA
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