My Unofficial Job Title
Yesterday, I decided that my unofficial job title is "Productivity Tool".
In addition to working way too fast and destroying my workload almost every day, I help others do the same thing. As the resident computer guru, when someone finally comes to me and asks me for help with something they've spent days or weeks on – it's my job to write a program or script that will finish it in seconds and absolutely amaze them.
Trying to clean up a list of 200,000+ ISBNs with garbage text mixed in? One magic regular expression will do it in under 2 seconds.
("/\d{7,15}x?/" if you're curious. I know that giving a range of 7-15 digits matches more than ISBNs, but there are screwy numbers in there that may be important, so I erred on the side of caution, rather than just dumping them all.)
etc. etc. etc.
I've begun measuring my performance in terms of how much of other people's work I get done.
Tags: i think i just called myself a "tool", job title, library, productivity tool
Tami said,
Too Funny
August 21, 2009 @ 7:51 pm