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I sit here as I think of better careers. At least this job has some kind of security. But I do have to work with nerdy nerds. Actually herds of nerds! I like that, I will say that to women I met, ‘I work with a herd of nerds.’ That is a sweet expression of my work environment. Ah, my freaking back hurts, so I have to be adjusted later, but I will have to drag on this way until then. Ah my work, my fancy fancy work. I am going to create another picture yet again on my computer. A picture used by an operator to control a pump. That is me, a picture creator. That is what I do with my engineering degree! However, I do write some magical code, you know computer programming, which makes the magical things happen in the background. I am the screen wizard of my group. I picture someday I will create and work on screens as Tom Cruise in Minority report. I will have screens and pictures hovering around on a big screen in front of me. And by just waving my hands around I will be able to magically move these images around, ah it will be so wonderful. So futuristic, I will feel like I have so much control and that I am doing such fascinating things, that I will finally love my job. I have to wait for that futuristic day, until then I can just imagine doing that in my mind every time I move pictures around my screen with the mouse.

Perhaps in a few years I can work on screens with multi-touch ability like the Iphone. Touch and drag a picture around. I should just install big ipads at our control stations. The pump operators can just stick their big fat fingers on these ipads, move pictures around, and choose the ones they want and play with the ones that they want (i.e use controls on them!). It will be so intuitive, so interesting and fun. The pump operators will actually want to be around my control screens instead of at lunch and break, the whole time. That is my job in a nutshell, creating pretty screens with some flashy animations. This little creative part of the job helps keep it interesting enough for me to continue working everyday of the workweek.