A very personal blog

Swamped

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I have so many things I’m putting off doing at work that I’m starting to feel like it’s gonna bite me anytime now, specially in the coming weeks. Whew!

First, I’ve been delaying on this RPA project for so long because it scaaares meee. How do you handle this? I keep on pushing it in favor of the easier ones, but now I feel like I need to get it rolling somehow. The thing is, I’m already quite sure it’s gonna be very hard to automate, if not impossible. Part of me wants to get back to the client and say it’s not possible to do this since it’s too complex, there are too many exceptions, and yet a part of me wants to keep on digging for solutions. So what happened? It’s been benched for two months JUST BECAUSE I can’t afford to say it can’t be done. I have yet to understand why it’s so hard for me to break this kind of updates to our clients. I know perfectly well how some scenarios don’t fit into the robotic scheme of things, that there’s only so much I can program without the use of ~real~ AI algorithms. And we’re not even there yet, so there’s really not much I can do.

Second, I have like two other RPA projects in-progress that I can’t seem to drag to the finish line because, uhm. Yeah that’s on me. They’re supposed to be my quick wins but procrastination got the better of me. Huhu.

Third, I have another RPA project that super duper hard and complicated I don’t even know where to start.

Fourth, I have a wedding invite and two logo studies to finish this week. Invite’s almost done actually, so it’s just the logo that I need to really sit on. I have a couple of ideas running in my head but recently, work has been eating more than four hours of my life each day that I’m left with no time to focus on my other ~endeavors~ haha. My boss is gonna kill me for this.

Anyway. UPDATE! My first problem just got officially solved so that’s now old news.

Thanks to my senior, I was able to get through that trap. I really just needed validation that it can’t be done, and if my senior agrees, then I have to be confident about it.

Yey. So now I’m working another project with them lol, cos you know, just in case one of the proposed ones doesn’t work out they’ve listed a ton of other things we can try haha.