Wide-open spaces.
It’s been awhile since I have posted anything here. Some things have happened.
I am no longer in Webhosting Tech Support. Skál!!
In September, I began work as a Technical Account Manager inside the same company. My account is a Japanese webhosting provider that we provide the OEM support for. The behind-the-scenes for this job is completely different than any of the work I have done before. I love it . . . in a masochistic sort-of way.
American and Japanese mindsets are more different than I ever knew. I need to try to tivo ‘Gung Ho’, I think. Concepts like Mieruka and Kaizen are alien and bizarre. Great concepts, but working them is a pain.
Most of my jobs have been in one form of isolation or another. In the Navy, we called it ‘The Mushroom Treatment‘. (Kept in the dark, and fed a lot of sh-. . . You get the idea.) Working Tech Support here was no different. I had no idea that so much else went-on inside the company. Now some of the bone-headed decisions that I’d seen, seem a bit less bone-headed. . . a bit.
The biggest hurdle is that I am now salary, no more overtime. Doesn’t sound so bad, but Japan is 14 hours ahead of us. I’m here during normal office-hours (0900-1800), but Japan’s 0900 doesn’t hit here until 1900. Guess when most of the meetings start . . .
Even then, it is not that bad. I just feel so overwhelmed most of the time. It’s a hard transition from severe isolation to free-range. I think I may have become mentally agoraphobic. . . afraid of the lack of tightly-focused boundaries.
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