So…
I’ve
been trying to get back into some “Good
Old Habits”
which sort of went by the wayside since the great recession. By the way, I
still believe we are in a recession because there are a lot of people still out
of work, being underpaid, or doing extra work just to hold on to their
jobs. Anyway, what I mean by a good old
habit is simply this; “Helping
Out When There is No CAD Manager”
When I started out working as an engineering assistant one
of the duties given to me was to assist or help out my peers, and or
supervisors with AutoCAD support. I guess this is something I carried over from
my brief stint as an AutoCAD Instructor at Lincoln Technologies. I never had a problem with helping people
out, in fact I enjoyed being a part of the team that came out with a solution
for AutoCAD issues.
Here I am some 10 years later and it seems as if so much has changed, and
unfortunately for the worst, (just my
opinion, but that is probably not the case).
Where there use to be handy
websites to get information, you now have to hunt
for
a website to get the same information that was at the tip of your fingers years
ago. I blame this on the recession and the fact that there have been so many
updates. Not just to software (which in
most cases is a good thing) but to the updates or removal of some websites.
Probably the one good thing is the “Cloud” which
has been good for collaboration.
As I stated, it seems to me due the
downturn in the economy, that CAD Support has taken a hit. I know for a period
of time I was asked “not” to help
out because even engineering assistants were now required to be “chargeable” on
projects and that there was no time in projects for me to do CAD support.
Anyway, the only way to help give support was to simply give in to working some
“O.T.” (own time). By the way, this is one of
the reasons for me to start my consulting business, (again due to the economy).
Well, I’m glad people
still look to me for help and wish I could do more which is why I started
working as a consultant. As far as helping my peers out in my office, I will
continue in the best capacity that I can, to be a support or a consultant
person in the CAD or BIM field.
