It’s Been a Long Time Since I ‘Developed’ Paperwork
Over the course of the last probably 8 years the number of pieces of paper I've printed out are few and far between. I have to print out two pages a week for my time and billing, and when I go someplace that I need directions to, I map it and print that out. It's a very little bit of paper.
I buy books electronically now. I get PDFs of manuals when I can. All in all, I'd like to be as paper-free as possible. And I've been doing a good job... until recently.
Part of my current assignment is a ton of paper-pushing. Read this spec, write this spec, what's the status of this spec? It's what I thought I was walking away from 12 years ago when I left my own company. I left management behind, and wanted to just do.
But every time I think I'm out, they find a way to pull me back in (excuses to Michael C.)
If I felt it was going to really be something then I'd be a lot more excited about it. But it's just paper because business feels like it's accomplishing something when it goes through fifty reams of paper a day through a printer. After all, what's getting printed has to be useful, right?
I've told them I'm not the guy for this job, but I've been told I am. Funny... I thought I'd have known that by now. Silly me. So I push paper. What a state.