Wednesday, July 11, 2012

I wish I was Marty McFly

Crocodile Rock - SIR Elton John

No but really, after the half week I've had so far I really want a Delorean to flash forward a few years just to make sure it all turns out okay. This week has been very discouraging because everything is kinda in a stasis as it comes to repair. The work is steady but it's all rental return instruments which thanks to my company's severely outdated price list is very close to the point of not worth my time. If you remember I have my own school to work on but thanks to the geniuses in the Dallas Independent School District we still haven't gotten a new purchase order to allow any of the tech's in our shop to work on the loads of DISD horns we currently have. Honestly we have about an even amount of DISD as well as rental return instruments; but the three of us that are commission pay are stuck working on the beaters that are in their own special circle of hell: being perpetually destroyed and fixed only to be destroyed even worse.

I'm sure everything will work out in the end but I can't say I've been more discouraged at work this week than I have today. And I don't mean to be all sad and gloomy, but I think a lot of my frustration is stemming from little things in the work environment I haven't adapted too yet or flat out don't like. Such as the ridiculously outdated price list. I mean seriously I'm sure my fellow tech's will read this and agree at how stupidly low the prices are for us to fix next to destroyed instruments.

I guess I'm just going to do my drone thing for a little longer and hope something changes or that things will actually start to look up and my future won't seem so murky. I'm constantly reminded that I need to keep working hard at it and eventually something will happen.