Day 2
Granted, day 2 may have been easier than day 1, but that’s really not saying much. What I’m doing here at IGOR is pretty challenging, and you really have to be engaged to get your work done, which is fine for me.
I sat down at the computer and went straight back on with the work I’d started on day 1, which was fine, because I’d spent the whole previous night thinking about how I’d structured it, and deciding that what I’d done already was a poor way of setting the whole thing out, so I pretty much started the whole thing again, which was fine, because what I’d already done wasn’t that good, anyway.
About 90 minutes in, and I’d made a lot of edits. I’d cleaned the whole page up, and written a lot. Suddenly, Firefox dies. That’s not cool, but whatever, I can just bring it back up, right?
Wrong.
I hadn’t saved what I’d done so far, and Joomla! doesn’t have an auto-save or backup feature.
I restore Firefox and discover that all my work had been totally lost. I had to start again. Let that be a lesson to all you people out there, SAVE FREQUENTLY, even if the saving system is a bit annoying. It really is worth it.
It took me about 45 minutes to get everything written back in. I had a pretty good idea of what to write the second time around, so it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be to get all my information back. Nevertheless, it was inconvenient and annoying, and I should’ve been saving, so it was my own fault.
After I finished putting all the information back in, my boss appeared and briefed me on some new work that I’d be doing. I’d have to read through an anonymous psychological report (basically, an assessment of a paying client), and edit it, ensuring that the whole thing made sense, and, because a client would be reading through the whole thing, it had to be relevant and had to be properly laid out.
It took me about an hour to get through the whole thing and make my corrections and comments, and my boss seemed pleased with what I’d done, which is always a good sign.
She clarified some of the corrections on there and sent it back to me for me to finish on day 3 (which is actually today, because I’m a day behind with my blogging).
Reading through the report, and seeing how the report needed to be written and laid out was so interesting that, on multiple occasions, I actually thought about how interesting it would be to conduct Psychological testing, and write one of these mammoth reports. Who would’ve thought that 16 pages of writing could be so interesting?
Anyway, I have to go finish editing the report, but I’ll make another post later today, so that I’m definitely not behind with the blogging, because I really don’t need that on top of the other stuff I have to do. It may be enjoyable, engaging, and interesting, but it’s still fairly hard work, and takes a while to finish.
- Callum
