Something Eloquent

Things change, though not always drastic­ally. The accu­mu­la­tion of small changes even­tu­ally develop into a major change though. I still work for a local Tech Support com­pany, as I have for a little over two years. When I first star­ted, my only com­puter know­ledge was some basics about Linux, minor troubleshoot­ing of Windows sys­tems, and what Mac OS looked like. Now, I’m a CompTIA A+ Certified tech, I have a good know­ledge of hard­ware troubleshoot­ing, I can clean a com­puter virus like a mother­fucker, and I know that this is not a long-term career for me.

I’ve finally been given a writ­ing task at work and I haven’t been more con­tent with my job in the entire time I’ve worked there. Client com­puters and phone calls inter­rupt me on occa­sion, and that’s to be expec­ted. It’s a not-horrible diver­sion that forces me to get up and move around every hour or so.

I went through the ori­ginal doc­u­ments that I’m expec­ted to work from, modify, update, et cet­era, one of them was work­able, though I think I killed an entire red pen in my first run-through. The format­ting was some­what work­able — I could at least tell what the inten­tion was. The entire 38 page doc­u­ment was rife with typos, mixed per­sons, and inap­pro­pri­ate com­ments. I think with my first draft I’ve man­aged to keep the feel of the ori­ginal, but refine it to the point where it might be usable in a cor­por­ate environment.

The second doc­u­ment, on the other hand, was almost entirely un-usable. I will prob­ably have to com­pletely re-write at least %75 of it. I don’t mind, really I don’t; espe­cially since I wasn’t given a hard dead­line for the pro­ject. A par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge I might face is that the two doc­u­ments have a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of over­lap in the top­ics that they dis­cuss, but I don’t really like the idea of copy­ing and past­ing between the two. I would like them to remain dis­tinct if at all possible.