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Post by noetsi on May 14, 2022 22:35:32 GMT -5
lol the pack is united...
I spent much of my life not getting up before 11 am. But I am making an effort not to do that.
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Post by kaybli on May 14, 2022 22:38:03 GMT -5
My sleep schedule is all over the place. I may be awake or sleeping at any time of day.  |
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Post by noetsi on May 14, 2022 22:47:02 GMT -5
I found myself falling asleep at work, but then I can do some pretty boring stuff and I essentially worked by myself for the last decade. I have a really strange job, much of the time I have to find things to do I have no assignment. I run a handful of reports a month that are important, but after that things get really slow. I was hired to do a job that they stopped doing years ago for the most part (statistical analysis). In the private sector I would have been laid off, but that is not how things work in the state. I morphed into a SQL coder, not the most interesting job. I tried for years to get them to do such analysis again, but recently pretty much gave up. On the other hand the reports I do would cost them large amounts of money if they contracted out, so I guess there is some logic in paying me a low state salary instead.
Much better to be busy. Its why I am retiring in large part.
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Post by inger on May 14, 2022 22:54:55 GMT -5
lol the pack is united... I spent much of my life not getting up before 11 am. But I am making an effort not to do that. You got it. I am the alpha dog. That’s what being a kind but firm master earns you… |
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Post by inger on May 14, 2022 22:57:48 GMT -5
I found myself falling asleep at work, but then I can do some pretty boring stuff and I essentially worked by myself for the last decade. I have a really strange job, much of the time I have to find things to do I have no assignment. I run a handful of reports a month that are important, but after that things get really slow. I was hired to do a job that they stopped doing years ago for the most part (statistical analysis). In the private sector I would have been laid off, but that is not how things work in the state. I morphed into a SQL coder, not the most interesting job. I tried for years to get them to do such analysis again, but recently pretty much gave up. On the other hand the reports I do would cost them large amounts of money if they contracted out, so I guess there is some logic in paying me a low state salary instead. Much better to be busy. Its why I am retiring in large part. I’ve met some Federal and State workers with similar positions. One of them took my son Michael on as a helper one year. The first day he learned they had a “nap time”. He wasn’t able to handle the numbers the job required, so she let him go… |
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Post by noetsi on May 14, 2022 23:22:54 GMT -5
I found myself falling asleep at work, but then I can do some pretty boring stuff and I essentially worked by myself for the last decade. I have a really strange job, much of the time I have to find things to do I have no assignment. I run a handful of reports a month that are important, but after that things get really slow. I was hired to do a job that they stopped doing years ago for the most part (statistical analysis). In the private sector I would have been laid off, but that is not how things work in the state. I morphed into a SQL coder, not the most interesting job. I tried for years to get them to do such analysis again, but recently pretty much gave up. On the other hand the reports I do would cost them large amounts of money if they contracted out, so I guess there is some logic in paying me a low state salary instead. Much better to be busy. Its why I am retiring in large part. I’ve met some Federal and State workers with similar positions. One of them took my son Michael on as a helper one year. The first day he learned they had a “nap time”. He wasn’t able to handle the numbers the job required, so she let him go… My brother worked at Kennedy Space Center after their glory years. Most there were effectively already retired I think. It has to be hard when you worked at an agency that was really going places (as NASA was in the sixties and early seventies) in your youth, being there as the agency faded from view with really very little to do. My agency does really important stuff. They just aren't very interested in statistical analysis which is my job. I run pretty much exclusively SQL these days even though formally I am a "Statistical Research Consultant" lol It remind me of Dilbert reading his job description commenting that it said he was supposed to be some type of engineer.  I run statistics about once a month, a canned time series I created a decade ago that a high school student with no statistics could run now. Just as well. The more I read statistics the less confident I am that is run correctly. There is just too many possible errors in the model (like non-linearity which as no simple solution). |
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I run statistics about once a month, a canned time series I created a decade ago that a high school student with no statistics could run now.