Today is Friday…I woke up feeling good, feeling like I could conquer the world, but I am tired, feeling a little spent…the last 2-3 weeks have been crazy for our company…every one of our customers has decided to have their agents work from home (WFH)…I am grateful that it has only been 1 at a time…it seems like we get through one and the next one wants to do it…learning from each one makes it easier to do the next! But today, things got a little quiet and I started surfing something my co-workers was investigating…adding home IPs that change daily to the IPTable that allows them to connect. He said there is a way to add the IP temporarily to the IP tables called port knocking, that he has done this in the past but wanted to do some testing. So I started looking into it…
You don’t really know what this is until you are close to ‘burn out’! It starts with a problem that you aren’t sure how to solve and you know that someone else has had this same issue, google every word you can think of that will give you the complete answer, check the first 10 pages…then aimlessly check your email…back to google with a couple other keywords…check your email…try to remember where you saw this issue dealt with before…check your email…read about something that you saw in the answer, reminds you of a song…go to youtube because you can listen to music while you search for the answer…check your email…SKIP AD…don’t like the song youtube picked for you, scroll the side suggestions…finally searching for your favorite singer/band, pick one, SKIP AD, listen to it…google/wikipedia the band, new fact about a singer, look on their website find another song you like, check your email, forget the song you want to hear, go back to their site, back to youtube, enjoy the song…Oh Yeah, what was I searching for in the first place…song ends, turn it off because you need to figure this out, check your email, someone is pissed because you haven’t figured it out…go back to google, look at the next results that aren’t purple and have all of your key words. Have an ah ha moment and remember where you put those notes on the last time this happened…potty break, clear your mind…back to your PC and get your thoughts straight.
Back to work, respond to the 36 emails that you saw come in while you were in your own little world…the work from home rabbit hole