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jethrien ([personal profile] jethrien) wrote2006-06-09 12:14 pm

Frustration

Ever get the feeling that everything you do for your job is ultimately futile?

[identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ever so occasionally; much less than with my last job (where I got it a lot, and I was right). I suspect most people do, and most people in start-up companies do often.

[identity profile] edgehopper.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw...sorry.

I've been doing little more than surfing the web the past few days, since the two attorneys who've given me assignments are out of town. Grr.

[identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It had started as a really good week, and then I got in this morning and the project I had been working on for days is apparently not at all what the investor wanted. And now people are pestering me for all the stuff that I was supposed to do this week and didn't because of the big project. It's not a good day.

[identity profile] deltagrl.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh heh...heh heh...heh heh....why no, never.

[identity profile] shnayder.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Resistance is futile!!!

Nothing any of us do actually matters to the Universe. But that's ok, because we get to have fun anyway.

[identity profile] lyriendel.livejournal.com 2006-06-10 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I *hate* stuff like that. Happened to me all the time as an intern, and as far as I could tell it was no different for the real engineers. People always change their minds and render all your hard work useless.

[identity profile] freekofnature.livejournal.com 2006-06-10 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes, but I realize that ultimately it is a means towards an end.
No matter what project I work on, I always learn something new, come away from it a little smarter, a little more experienced. I plan on using all that someday to accomplish something very unbelievably awesome to advance civilization and the body of knowledge!