I really haven’t had the chance to blog recently, considering how busy I have been for the last, oh, lets say two weeks.
It seems as though I am a marked man. Everytime something comes down my name seems to be attached somehow. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job and I love to work, especally for the Marines that I work for, but sometimes I get the feeling that I am the only one taking initiative. I can’t gripe too much, because the more they throw on top of my desk, the more I learn, and I will love any knowledge I can pull back. I am trying to get as much experience with the Cisco products as possible, because I plan on getting my CCNA when I get back, and after that, I want to start studying for my CCNP. I will probably try to use Tuition Assistance to get into one of the bootcamp programs for those.
Right now the biggest thing in my world is the wedding I am trying to have. I want it to be great, but money and time are definitely not on my side. Neither of us seem to have time for anything, and i haven’t even really talked to her in the last few days, because I either get tasked with something as soon as I come in, or I end up staying late because there is something to do that only I know how to do, which leads to me waking up later in the morning.
I don’t mind being the go to guy, but it does kind of wear on you after a while.
There have been plenty of times during my "military career" that I fail to see the common sense in many command descisions. The thing about the Marine Corps is, if the explanation doesn’t make sense, its an excuse to cover up any real reason there may be to include but not limited to:
dog and pony show
politics
pissing contest
"I have more rank, so do what I say.."
dog and pony show
politics
pissing contest
"I have more rank, so do what I say.."
I always find the last one to be the most amusing, seeing someone who can’t think anything but Marine Corps falling back to their rank and hiding behind it like a scared puppy everytime someone calls them out on some order or directive they put out that makes absolutely no sense. What they should realise is that we are all laughing at them when they do this. The rest of them are pretty much just annoying, though I see the reasoning behind them sometimes.
Common sense seems to take a sharp turn south and head for a steady decline as you pick up rank.
Catch up to you later, I have questions coming from all sides…
~RouterB
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