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Jun. 13th, 2013 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretWe're a man short at work since one of the technicians left about a month ago. Until recently this didn't affect me all that much, since my project was the top priority and so all available manpower was thrown at my project. Another project has temporarily supplanted it, so all the manpower is being thrown at that one and there's no manpower available to continue the work on my project.
I'm primarily a designer, meaning that on a good day I sit at my desk and draw things in various CAD programs and then work on coordinating the work of having other people make them- sourcing the material, contracting outside machine shops, providing drawings and parts to our in-house technicians, etc... But one of the attractions of the job was always that we were small enough that I'd be able to work with my hands at times.
I am not the most manually coordinated person in the world. I'm a nerd who spends most of the day at the computer. But I like buildings things. I like building things a lot.
So it has been lots of fun the past few days getting to step into the back to saw and drill and punch and screw things together because there's nobody else available to do it. My hands are covered in small cuts from sharp pointy objects and sparkly stainless steel shavings. But I have built things. :)
I'm primarily a designer, meaning that on a good day I sit at my desk and draw things in various CAD programs and then work on coordinating the work of having other people make them- sourcing the material, contracting outside machine shops, providing drawings and parts to our in-house technicians, etc... But one of the attractions of the job was always that we were small enough that I'd be able to work with my hands at times.
I am not the most manually coordinated person in the world. I'm a nerd who spends most of the day at the computer. But I like buildings things. I like building things a lot.
So it has been lots of fun the past few days getting to step into the back to saw and drill and punch and screw things together because there's nobody else available to do it. My hands are covered in small cuts from sharp pointy objects and sparkly stainless steel shavings. But I have built things. :)