Work post!
May. 1st, 2014 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzThings are so slow at work I'm a) taking time off, and b) I virtually ran out of things to do yesterday in the office. This left me in the awkward and wonderful situation of being bored. As a result, I threw out things I could, reorganized my desk and files, and tore through my old training materials.
I learned something - I'm better at what I do.
I realized my work was better when I had a series of requests to go through materials. Oh irony, while I wrote the preceding sentence I got an email from a coworker. I had just sent him a recent (1 year old) response to a damages claim, and he responded it "was very helpful." It actually was pretty good and conveniently had arguments on most major damages claims subject areas. But I've seen a lot of my old work recently and it was nothing like what I, effortlessly, pump out today. So I knew I had gotten better.
Yesterday I realized not only I wasn't using these old training materials, but I had no reason to. I've converted from someone with pages of cheat sheets to an attorney who does his case law research from scratch on each case (mostly). Granted this may be easy in my field of law, but instead of pulling cheat sheets on anything but very basic law (i.e. McDonnell Douglas 3 part test for discrimination disparate treatment analysis), I go into random recent cases in the forum applicable and pull what case cites they are using. This wasn't something I planned, but found made better products and I made the research easier with practice.
I suck less, and think that's awesome. Or at least that's how I perceive it and feel about it today.
I learned something - I'm better at what I do.
I realized my work was better when I had a series of requests to go through materials. Oh irony, while I wrote the preceding sentence I got an email from a coworker. I had just sent him a recent (1 year old) response to a damages claim, and he responded it "was very helpful." It actually was pretty good and conveniently had arguments on most major damages claims subject areas. But I've seen a lot of my old work recently and it was nothing like what I, effortlessly, pump out today. So I knew I had gotten better.
Yesterday I realized not only I wasn't using these old training materials, but I had no reason to. I've converted from someone with pages of cheat sheets to an attorney who does his case law research from scratch on each case (mostly). Granted this may be easy in my field of law, but instead of pulling cheat sheets on anything but very basic law (i.e. McDonnell Douglas 3 part test for discrimination disparate treatment analysis), I go into random recent cases in the forum applicable and pull what case cites they are using. This wasn't something I planned, but found made better products and I made the research easier with practice.
I suck less, and think that's awesome. Or at least that's how I perceive it and feel about it today.
