Data Entry
February 6, 2013
I spent the better part of my day updating records today, manually going into an application and changing specific information, one record at a time. They take about 2 minutes each to update and I am pretty sure I have over 2 million left. And I am not alone, I know for a fact there are fellow ‘data enterers’ reading this, and each of them have like 2 million left too. We will get it done, it is what we do, or at least it is this week. At some point your brain turns off and you find yourself touching keys on autopilot, the info is correct, but you are not sure how you are doing it, and then you do something stupid… you think about it and once you do that you are screwed. Your brain punishes you for trying to take control. It has a protection mechanism that flips on to help you deal with monotonous actions. The last thing it wants you to do is think. There was one point in my day where I misspelled my initials all because I tried to think. Not my name, my initials…. I am sure I will wake up sometime in the middle of the night typing on this ancient typewriter, getting really annoyed when Ctrl V does not do what I want it to, of course I am joking… everyone knows you had to press the Back Spacer, the Tab Stop Set and the ¢ keys to get a typewriter to paste.
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