http://newarchivist.com/2010/02/09/your-best-friend/ The MSI Diaries Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://newarchivist.com/2010/02/09/your-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-946 Anna Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:08:21 +0000 http://newarchivist.com/?p=703#comment-946 Thank you for writing about this topic. I'm in my first job right now and have found myself waiting around a lot more than I had expected to. Some of these tips I have already divined for myself, but it is good to see them clearly spelled out. And it is great to know that my time management isn't quite as out of whach as I have been fearing. Thank you for writing about this topic. I’m in my first job right now and have found myself waiting around a lot more than I had expected to. Some of these tips I have already divined for myself, but it is good to see them clearly spelled out. And it is great to know that my time management isn’t quite as out of whach as I have been fearing.

]]> http://newarchivist.com/2010/02/09/your-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-913 Matt Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:06:56 +0000 http://newarchivist.com/?p=703#comment-913 I know what you mean when you describe the eagerness to get things done coming out of the grad school environment. While in my first job, I felt like I was pushing staff who had been there 30 years with tasks that I had come across, ones that they needed to play a role in to get the task accomplished. These tasks were things that had been sitting around for years and I took the initiative to finish little things here and there that had been sitting around since the mid 1990s. It was nice to hear from my superiors though, that my work was forcing them to get things done in a good way. So your hard work and eagerness to accomplish things can and will have a positive impact, even when it feels like it will not. I know what you mean when you describe the eagerness to get things done coming out of the grad school environment. While in my first job, I felt like I was pushing staff who had been there 30 years with tasks that I had come across, ones that they needed to play a role in to get the task accomplished. These tasks were things that had been sitting around for years and I took the initiative to finish little things here and there that had been sitting around since the mid 1990s. It was nice to hear from my superiors though, that my work was forcing them to get things done in a good way. So your hard work and eagerness to accomplish things can and will have a positive impact, even when it feels like it will not.

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