IT patience

- What are you doing?
- I'm waiting for this process to finish.
- Ahm... And how long is it?
- It depends but it usually lasts about half an hour.
- And you will waste half an hour looking at the screen?
- (non-believing look) Is there any alternative?
- What's the problem? Doesn't the process know how to process itself if you're not watching it?


The truth is that trying to explain to a non-technician or non-IT-related person that sometimes you have to focus in what you're doing and that watching the screen for half an hour (without doing anything else) is a part of our job is hard. Even to a technician. Even to a IT-technician.


Please, let me say it: What a waste of time.

May it be waste of time or not, we wait patiently for the process to finish. Why? Because when it finishes we have to do other things and usually half an hour is short enough for not starting anything else because of the high cost of mind-chip-change at some times of the afternoon or some days of week.

(AGD-ACME-spanish-translated-expression) If you try to be at church, making the bells toll and brooming the church entrance (specially when you are not a genius) is just what you need for performing poorly in all three subjects. And, of course, you forget things.

- What a ****!
- What's the matter?
- I have to abort the process because I forgot to initialise the database.
- And then you'll start it again?
- Sure... I have to make sure it works...
- Would'nt it be easier to check that all is correct before, start it, go to have a coffee and come back?
- You aren't a IT-Technician, are you?

It is said that spanish IT-technicians are imaginative. As you can see, we are also patient.
And idiots... There's no way to deny it...