Beyond 254

Hard Drive Crashed!!

Last week, my hard drive crashed and rendered my computer useless. For the past week, I have been borrowing a family member's computer to check e-mail and other minor things. I received word yesterday that I will be receiving a disk of the data that was recovered and a new hard drive. This has been a serious wake up call for me, because I have not been backing up like I should. My last back up was August 2008! Once I receive the disks, I will be able to find out if everything was recovered. To make sure this does not happen again, I plan on purchasing an external hard drive to perform weekly backups. This experience has really opened my eyes to the importance of regular backups.

Tip of the Day: Please back up all of your data on a frequent basis. Weekly back ups should be sufficient, but daily for really important items that you are working on. You never know when you will encounter a computer malfunction. It is better to be on the safe side.

It will NOT be different

I was talking to a fellow co-worker the other day and she expressed her desire to leave and find a job at another company. She was asking about my contacts at my previous company and asked me why I left. I told her that the environment at the previous company I worked for was extremely political. She asked me, "more political than here?" I told her it was political, but in a different way. Then she said, I guess no matter where you go you will run into office politics. I told her, yes, every company I have worked for has some level of politics. You will not be able to escape it. It will not be different. Just to get one item approved at my current company, I need to get buy-in from at least five different people. People need to realize that politics will be prevalent at large corporations. No one will escape corporate politics by changing companies. So it does not matter where you work, it will never be different.  

Tip of the Day: People need to realize their own dreams and passions and pursue them instead of looking for greener pastures at other companies in Corporate America.