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Friday, April 09, 2004
...and the Friday Five is BACK!!!!

...the link can always be found on the left sidebar as a place to wander. And there's another entry under this one, so don't forget to read it - it's about why I blog.

1. What do you do for a living?
I am currently employed as a business/statistical analyst for an online DVD rental company. I also do database research and a small amount of coding, some development (at the specification and QC levels). I've always been one who branches out a lot within her job.

I used to do all of that and manage the millions of discs in inventory as well, but I don't do that anymore. Well, sort of. I still have my hand in it, whether I like it or not.

2. What do you like most about your job?
I like the fact that I don't have anyone breathing down my neck to get something done unless it's super critical. I make my own deadlines, and I usually develop my own projects. And I don't have to sit through 2 hour long daily staff meetings like I used to on the old team. We've pared them down to an hour once a week, and when that hour is up, we're done.

3. What do you like least about your job?
The fact that I still have to deal with my ex-boss. Don't get me wrong - he's a great guy, very intense, very focused. All that's good. He just has a hard time letting go of former employees. Or he writes you off as a traitor because you left him. The problem is that he waffles between the two behaviors with me instead of picking one and staying with it.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because...
...because someone either massively screwed with something that I handed off to them and then came back to tell me after they attempt to fix it but have just screwed it even more, or the ex-boss is being a stupidhead and orders me to drop everything and attend to an issue that isn't my responsibility anymore.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
None. I think I found the one that I like.... For now. When I get bored here, I'll see what else I want to do that will still propel me forward and still do something a little different.