Reading harold_maude's journal

Have you ever applied for a certian job, got the job and than the job you ended up doing wasn't the job you applied for and got hiered for?

I know it sounds like a toung twister, yeah say that ten times and then we'll see how clear headed you are.

Well, that's my job. I was hired for one thing and have done more to be trained for several other things while the thing I applied for is not the main thing I'm doing.
I feel at times like I was sold a bill of goods because no one wants this job.

The job itself is a job in its self, being one that if that's all I did could be a full time job. But the job I was actually hired for is about 4 or 5 jobs rolled into one and it's expected that I do the job I was hiered for and all the other stuff too in a part time frame work.

If I had known what they wanted I would have never applied for the job. From the discription they put out there it sounded like many similar jobs I have done in the past.
I was more than qualified for the job.

I know this all sound really vague, and if you are now confused and scratching your head, you are feeling exactly how I feel at the end of every day that I work.

The information I get from the people above me is bits and peices and fragmented and not clear at all. I've had to talk to people who have done this job for this company and they all have been kind enough to tell what this job truely entails, and when I get enough energy to do so, I'm going to bake them cookies as a thank you, but until I straighten out this mess the cookies will have to be a distant goal.

I wish people would tell the truth when they look for aplicants for any job, be honest and it could end up in some amazing results, like a person showing up who can do it all and more.

I can mulitask, but if its alot of confusion comming at me, I tend to be like a deer who is caught in head lights.

So now class that we are all clear on that, take tab "A" put it in slot "D" while cutting line "F" into a shape of a thingy that looks something like an upside down monkey, but if you don't stop at the dotted line, which arn't on the page at all you just have to know where they are and no one is going to tell you because your suppose to know that simply because of the upside down monkey thingy shape, your not stupid, we know your intelligant and have seen this shape before.
We don't care how much you deny it.

So after comming to the dotted line take a sharp left turn and when your finished cleaning the dark hole at the end of the closet, put tab "r" directly into the monkey's eye.
I know we forgot to include the monkey's eye and it's vital to the sucess of the completion of your work day, but the person who had this job before you didn't tell us where they put the monkey's eye so you'll just have to find it, because we couldn't be bothered with finding it before we hiered you.
Is that clear class? Good. I'm glad no one raised their hand on that, lets me know you all know what I'm talking about.
Now your an expert.
We have unrealistic expectations as we know you do as well, so good luck and remember everything we've taught you, now go do your job.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.