I said I was going to try and spend time this week, but I
have to say I haven’t done very well.
I’ve had a busy week, but I’ve also had time to work on things I wanted
to work on. Haven’t done it. I’ve spent time watching b-movies (Iron Sky),
and I’ve visited few areas around here.
I really haven’t put the effort in that I should have. And now it’s Wednesday, and my time to take
advantage of this time is quickly disappearing.
There isn’t the time to do what I’ve wanted to do because I’ve wasted
the time. Looks like I lost the
discipline I needed before.
I can’t really call this a vacation, but that’s what it
seems like. I have had more time off
this week than I know what to do with,
and yet I still haven’t accomplished anything I wanted to do. I will pass this course with little effort,
so I should have been spending time working on things that are difficult. I should have spent time working on
CCENT/CCNA stuff.
But I haven’t . About
the only thing I’ve done is get up and eat breakfast. I’ve succeeded in doing well at class, but
that’s about it.
Now, the week is over and I’m back at the airport waiting to
fly home. I said I was going to get more
written, so I would have a back-log of stuff to post. But I didn’t do that, either. I did well at class, and that’s about all I
did. Didn’t spend any time doing
touristy stuff. I’m thinking my original plan fell through to
sleeping in relaxing.
What I really did notice is once I got off at a reasonable
time, I didn’t know what to do with myself.
I didn’t have kids to play with or dishes to do, or any sort of
housework. It was different to say the
least. I think it shows the normal I’ve
been experiencing is not what the rest of the world would call normal. Yet I’ve been doing it for I don’t know how
long. Like I said, it’s “normal” for
me.
Maybe the real answer here lies in the question and
observation. I’ve often heard people say
they want to hire hard workers. Or they
describe themselves as a “hard worker”.
I think that person is missing the point. The world doesn’t need more hard
workers. The world needs more smart
workers. And the big problem is that
everyone is taught to be a “hard worker” not a “smart worker”.
So how does one transition from a “hard worker” to a “smart
worker”? Because working hard just isn’t
cutting it. And this week break makes
me realize just how much it’s not working.
I think automation is one part of it, but at the moment there is so much
to learn about automation because it’s just not taught. It’s assumed to be important, but no one
teaches how to do it.
Therein lies the big problem. Most of the stuff we should know, we have to
learn from those who have already learned.
They never codify their knowledge or understanding. So how do I do that? I think it’s time to go back to
programming. Then it’s a matter of
figuring out what can be automated and what can’t.