Time to Switch Gears!
I am becoming increasingly frustrated with my job every day. What started out as a ‘web design’ position has since become a maintenance chore - because it is exceedingly difficult to get data out of the company database (and, hey, shouldn’t that be a job for someone else?) my job has become an exercise in futility.
When I started here, this company had no online presence and it was my job give them one, which I have since done. Now that the main chore is over with, the job (I now realize) is not about ‘web design’, but about the industry that this company is in. An industry for which I am certainly NOT in the target market. An industry I had never really given more than a passing thought to.
I’ve spent many meetings trying to explain that the way the data at this company is stored, re-keyed by different people, near impossible to extract, and not effectively shared between departments is KILLING productivity - and making me spend my days mired in Access, Excel, and ancient report writing software rather than in Flash, Photoshop, or writing or designing webpages in BBEdit or Dreamweaver (hey, don’t knock it - I never use WYSIWYG mode, the color coding is good and the tag autocomplete is handy). I am on the wrong track. I am glad I have the ability to apply the left side of my brain to things like SQL queries, but it’s time to move into a more right-brained job. I went to 4+ years of college to develop my right brain and my creative skills, and although I’m not exactly painting, it’s time for me to move into a more creative position in a more ‘Wired’ office culture - somewhere where I don’t feel like the outcast babbling to myself about web-related things all day in the back of the office.
I will be putting my resume back up on this site very shortly.