Frustrated

[robinturner]

On the plus side, we have no meetings today, so we can work at home.

On the minus side, the two things I was planning on doing today aren't happening. First, I was going to jazz up my vocabulary analyser with some pie charts, but I can't do it without the Perl GD module. The sysadmin mailed me to say he'd install it, but it's not there yet. The seconf thing I was going to do was move our department website to a different account, but I can't get the password.

Oh dear, it looks like I'll have to do some real work.

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[vret.livejournal.com]

That would be real work for me.

[solri.livejournal.com]

And that is why I have resited the lure of a much higher salary and stuck to teaching rather than going into IT. I could easily get a job as a Linux sysadmin or website manager, but then I'd be doing a hobby as a job, and having people shout at me when I don't perform, instead of patting me on the back when I do something clever.

As I said while waiting for a bus with a philosophy professor and a CS professor: "When I'm talking to philosophers, I'm a linguist, when I'm talking to computer scientists, I'm a philosopher, and when I'm talking to linguists, I'm a geek."

[vret.livejournal.com]

I've not had people shouting at me, or failing to praise me for being clever. Maybe it's because they don't see me as some kind of manager, but as a fragile creative type.

Perhaps... No. You wouldn't shout at IT people, would you?

I run into a similar dilettantism problem. Jazzers tell me I'm a folkie, folkies tell me I'm a rocker, and rockers tell me I'm a jazzer.