Learned quite a bit about my new job today. I guess when nobody actually grasps the concept of what you are going to be doing, you put yourself in the mindset for some labor intensive job that is going to force you to work long hours and just wear you out physically and emotionally.
Boy, was I wrong.
Seems what I will be doing will be more docile than I thought. I'll hesitate to call it administrative, but I'm not sure what else to call it. After previous deployments of being at the lowest level of a unit, I often forget that I'm now higher in the food chain. The change is nice, and I'm looking forward to a different kind of tour. Along with tracking and updating the status of those underneath me, I'm sure I'll wear a couple additional titles while I'm here. Most notably, I'm qualified and able to do the proper documentation to ship and certify hazardous materials. AMMO-62 (Technical Transportation of Hazardous Material) is one of those classes I took mid-year in 2012. Never did I think I would ever use this qualification. Guess I better brush up on my skills!
Up to this point, you may be wondering why this post title is 'PowerPoint.' Well, I've found my new least favorite thing. For those of you not familiar, we receive a lot of training via PowerPoint slides. I understand it has to be done. I can deal with that.
But have you ever had to log in to an online PowerPoint presentation? As if getting one in person isn't bad enough, imagine doing it while wearing a headset and staring at a computer screen. But it gets worse. Someone asks questions. ABOUT EVERYTHING. All you can do is stare at the slides. And hope they shut the hell up and move on to the next slide (eventually making it last slide after almost 2 hours).
Well that's my rant for the day. Sure glad this is only a once a week ordeal.
On the up side, everything is going really well here. I'm looking forward to getting into a set routine, but most of all, getting my feet wet and learning the task at hand.
Welcome to the blogging world, I'm glad to have another blog to follow. Thanks for sharing your life over there. Some of us are very curious as to what a typical day is like for you guys. We miss you already!
ReplyDeleteWow, I guess that power point has infested even the Army. I hate power point. Instead of me reading the slides to them, why don't they go back to their offices and read them themselves.
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