Please share your success stories :)
I got told to do something, nobody bothered me all day, and I got it finished before I stopped working for the day.
I went home
I’m not a programmer, but I learned how to write a number of Excel macros to automate repetitive and tedious tasks.
There were quite a number that really saved a ton of time, but the best were a pair took about 3 full days work for 3 or 4 people and made it into 10 minute jobs for 2 people.
It freed up so much time every month, and the job went from miserable and error prone to being much more reliable and let us spend time improving related processes rather than trudging through piles of data to get it formatted and sent to the right people.
You’re doing it wrong.
You write the macros, tell no one, and give three people an easy income.
If necessary, add random errors so they think you’re still doing it manually.
MFers got no class solidarity…
I get what you’re saying. I’ve made that mistake before.
We were a remote team and never even got a new manager when the old one left, and me and the supervisor are friends IRL.
Good times.
My current job is doing this, but moving workflows from SAS -> Excel to Python.
I was a stage hand with IATSE (THE theatre and stage workers union) and the road crew for the band seemingly forgot about us. So there were five union members just standing there watching the road crew finish putting up the stage for about 3-4 hours (5?). As union members, the ‘employer’ is contractually obligated to send us on break and after a certain amount of time give us a hot meal. We missed all of those, so by the time some one noticed us we were already on quadruple time (penta time?). I was paid ~$1000 to do nothing for 4 hours. I love unions. :3
This may not sound like much for someone that doesn’t know how involved a fire alarm can be but …Lightning had struck a large chain hotel and blown up the fire alarm at 5pm or so. By 11pm I had a temporary fire panel installed, temporarily wired, bare minimally programmed and communicating with a central station enough that the guests were safe for almost a week until the actual manufacturer representative could do a full repair. Parts used were a different manufacturer that shouldn’t be able to “talk” with the intelligent field devices. Most parts were used spares I had in my truck. Customer was thrilled. Most guys would have just thrown up their hands, said it’s dead, notified the fire department and went to sleep.
The fire alarm industry has provided me many days with a sense of accomplishment. It’s the best part of the job.
I had a list of things to do, and I got them all done.
Last time I felt that way was during my final tree planting contract five years ago. Set a new personal best at 4500 trees despite only having six hours to work that day. People over thirty tend to break down from the toll the job takes on the body, so I was equally suprised and proud to set a new record while being the oldest guy in the camp.
I quit and told my boss exactly how much I hated him
The day I quit that one job. That’s it, that’s the one time.
I found out a project I worked on won national project of the year by a trade group. A lot of work I did on that project was brought up as reasons for the win.
I got hired by a small start up a couple years back and was basically responsible for an entire platform from top to bottom. High stress? Oh you bet your ass! But god damn having full control and building out huge solutions that customers were using and giving exuberant feedback on were highs I have yet to achieve in other settings. I suffer from imposter syndrome constantly and being in that space helped reassure me I did in fact know what I was doing and was actually pretty damn good at it. The startup failed, which of course sucked, but in the end it was for the better.
I had time at the end to sweep receiving.
Spent some time in flow state. Pretty much every good day I have at work has some time in flow. Spending all day in meetings, interruptions, etc. is where bad days come from.
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Honestly, a lot of days make me feel satisfied. I work on the comp side of a fundraising department for a large public university. I’m good at what I do, enjoy it and have earned enough of a reputation that people generally let me tackle whatever comes my way however I want.
So, if I have a good productive day, I feel like maybe more students got scholarships because of my work that day. And I work from home so if I did well at work, found time to do my “old man refuses to stop playing sports with kids in their 20s” exercises AND had a couple good homecooked meals, well yeah, I feel pretty accomplished and satisfied.
But yeah, doing something I like for a cause which I ferverently support, I have more good days than bad. Working from home is a heck of a cherry on top though.
