Overworked Computer Geek?
Time is a precious commodity, especially if you’re a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick-fixes that prevent you from ever getting to those long-term projects. But the pressure is on you to produce and it only increases with time. What do you do?
Here’s a great link about how to manage your time better.
It’s the author of Time Management For System Administrators, Thomas A. Limoncelli, giving a talk about the book and sharing some of the ideas from it. While the title implies that it is for system administrators specifically, I feel it’s quite applicable to anyone in a computer technology field.
Maybe that’s because in my job, like many I expect, I may do system administration, but I also do many other things in many other realms.
Anyway…read it. It’s good, and quite helpful.
