Still on contract at StateGrowth. I am supposed to image, build and deploy about 160 new machines to replace old machines. I did the same thing back in the fall. Apparently, this is an on-going thing they do every two years. They break it up into three different projects, doing a third of the company each time. I am not really involved in the planning or decision making process of who gets what. They hire me to swap the machines once they are ready, and I am the one who gets them ready. The project is, I believe, is scheduled until January but I am not really sure about that. I am pretty fast at it so I can't see it taking that long to do, it didn't last time, but I am happy to have a job until then so I might slow down my efforts so it will last that long. We will have to see how it goes.
One issue is the guy who is supposed to run it this time is on maternity leave for the next six weeks. Basically, I am in charge of getting it done but they keep pulling me off to work on the phones so I am not sure what is expected while he is out. When I say I work on the phones, it means I am first level IT support for all of StateGrowth and several other government agencies. That was why I was originally brought in, to cover for some people who were on leave. After that, they decided to keep me and assign me to this project back in March. The project went from March to June last time so I can see why the think it will go until January this time.
Of course, none of this is what I really do and I could probably train William to do it, it is that simple to do. Just a lot of repetitive work doing the same thing over and over again. You have to pay attention and not get confused as to what step each machine is on, but once you get a rhythm to it, it can be done pretty quickly. Not very challenging, so anyone can do it with very little training. Guess that is why they do not pay me a whole lot of money to do it for them. I did manage, the last time, to write a couple of scripts that do a lot of the work for me. I had to write them in batch files as that was the only thing that was available. I would have like to write them in a real language or maybe even PowerShell but I found out that I am not allowed to run PowerShell scripts or any other type of language on the computers as it is an Active Directory environment and they have restricted what can and cannot be done on normal users machines. I could get around it but I got into trouble when I started doing that so I gave it up.
Now most of that probably won't mean anything to anyone but I am bored here and thought I would go through what I am currently up to work wise. I hate the job, or I hate that it is not something I would normally like to do, but it is all I can get in Tasmania that is even remotely related to what I can do. And, I relate that because it has a sever impact on my life, the kids and what the plans are for the future.
Not sure how much I will go into it or even if I should but I will try to relate some of it. It would seem that Juanita and the kids are moving to the mainland. While I am not against that, the plan seems to be to just go. No place to live, leave everything behind, take the kids out of school and just go. I'm not a big fan of that.
You know, this is just way too depressing to talk about. I am going to just post this entry and leave it at that. If I come back, I will try to relate more or hopefully, have better news. I am just tired of it.
Until next time
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