It's funny, how the tiniest details can make one's day seem better. A particularly vexing problem was troubling me at work, and I think I just found a solution to it. I can't fix it until this evening but I feel better already. It's strange to think that almost everyone else who works here has tasks to perform that can be stressful, but all boil down to working harder. If something is "difficult" it is always become time contraints. My job, on the other hand, is almost always knowledge driven: if there's a problem it is because I do not know the answer to something. The solution is to simply recover the information. Sure, occasionally things break, but the solution is to discover how to fix them in as short a time as possible. Knowledge is the weapon.

Though I mind the stress, after several years I've gotten fairly adept at figuring out problems. So there are less situations where I don't know what I'm doing. Ideally, yes, I try to learn something new every day, but it's getting harder. Still, each time I think I'm set, some new obstacle comes up. The best part of all is that all the knowledge in question is transferable: the technology I'm dealing with will be around for years to come.

That's not to say, of course, that I enjoy working in IT. I, personally, hate computers almost as much as I hate the people who work on them. But until I'm in a position with a similar knowledge requirement, it's the best place to work. Politics, by comparison, is far messier. And as the end goal has always been an island, writing, the course I navigate to get there is somewhat superfluous. Because, after all, I know I'll get there in the end.

It's not even a blue sky day and I'm feeling good. At least until I check my bank account, that is.