Uhhhhhhgggghhh. I’m in school for my second bachelor’s and I just found out I have to fill out a form every semester that reminds them that I’m actively working towards finishing my degree, because I “have too many credits.”
I’m wondering if colleges got in trouble for letting people go to school too long and wracking up massive student loans or something. Otherwise, this process is just generating paperwork for no reason other than to keep some poor office worker busy.
I’ve been thinking about work and how so much office work could be done by an automated program at this point. So many companies are paying people just to move paperwork from one pile to another, with too much other paperwork relying on that first piece making it to the right pile. I know there’s a portion of it that is probably required by some government office somewhere along the line, but I think there’s a decent chance that was just done for busy work for someone else too.
Not going to lie, part of the reason I went back to school was so I could take the time to learn how to automate all of my past jobs into obliteration.
Although I love my job right now, I still feel financially behind and I’m thinking I want to start taking temporary, part-time admin jobs once the new hires start in around the end of June. I can get about 1.5 – 2x the hourly rate, but I won’t get the chance to do homework while at work. Temp work is ideal for me as well, because I’ll be able to see a bunch of workplaces and situations that will help me understand what is needed for the kind of software I want to make. I want to take my job duties beyond overly complicated spreadsheets.
Lol, the SEO program I use hates the way I write.