A Day In The Life: 08/30/2021 / Application Essay
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05:00 – Wakeup:
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Wakeup
with the alarm clock and make a pot of coffee
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05:15 – Morning routine:
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Shower
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Breakfast
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Laundry
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Dishes
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Dressed
for work
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07:00 – Dr. Appt:
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Stop
at Dr. office to review blood work
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08:00 – Arrive at work:
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Badge
in,
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Park
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Boot
up laptop
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08:15 – Warehouse:
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Stop
at warehouse to pick up packages
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Deliver
equipment to work area
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Process
goods receipts
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09:00 – Hires and Terminations:
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Disable
Accounts
o
Coordinate
security access
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Process
chain of custody documentation
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Administer
inventory items.
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10:00 – Break Fix:
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Review
network health and process repairs as necessary
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Check
trouble ticketing system for escalated work items.
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Work
on hardware and software repairs and configurations
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12:00 – Lunch
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Salisbury
steak – Yum!
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13:00 – Project work
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Prepare
power plants for divestiture
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Configure
drives to onboard a new power plant
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Check
on NYC power projects
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17:00 – Head Home
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Commute
Back Home
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18:00 – Dinner
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Dinner
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Dishes
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Cleanup
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19:00 – Homework
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This!
Today was
nice as I didn’t have a single meeting planned.
This is because projects have been postponed due to contract
negotiations or Covid-19 related delays in inventory or workforce. It was nice to be able to have a productive
day with the rumble of the #4 steam turbine spinning away behind me providing
power to all the air conditioners that are fighting this humidity. What I have failed to mention in my list here
is the 4 cups of coffee along the way to keep my eyes open.
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Our text states that “A word processor is a common computer application for creating formatted text” (Vahid, & Lysecky, 2017). A word processor is a writing tool best suited for papers, documents, and legal and literary texts. It is very good at letter formatting and text printing functions. This application would be an excellent tool to document one's daily activities in a diary format. However, depending upon your intent, other software could also be helpful.
Excel, for example, would be very useful in calculating and sorting daily activities by time spent. A spreadsheet could also track expenses associated with daily activities and is also great for comparing day-to-day activities. A spreadsheet program is a powerful tool that allows us to apply formulas and formatting to data sets to sort, filter, and analyze. The downside to this is that each day would require a separate page or sheet, which would get quite bulky very quickly. A less cumbersome option may be a database as we could enter each record through a form, and then we could analyze the data through reports all in one place instead of needing to scroll through pages to see what you are looking for. Excel, however, is not the place to do the journaling. Long text is not Excel's strong point. The textual nature of the data also leans towards database use as searches for text and operations on numbered data would both be available. Excel is also an excellent tool for budgeting and tracking with its number formatting and formula capabilities, whereas a database would excel at cataloging a collection such as baseball cards.
“Presentations are often accompanied by a slideshow to help the audience visualize information” (Vahid, & Lysecky, 2017). PowerPoint would be the tool of choice if one needed to convince the boss of one’s productivity. The ability to format for large displays, add animations and transitions, and transition tools make this a good choice for presenting the journal information to others. Presentation software would make for an awkward tool for journaling itself as it is not conducive to document typing. Data analytics would need to be done elsewhere before being presented. Although PowerPoint is mainly presentation-oriented, it also makes for a great impromptu sign maker with its large fonts and bold layouts.
In conclusion, all the applications listed here overlap functionality in one way or another. One must choose which to use based on the desired result. For a well-written and easy-to-read essay format, the author would use a word processor. To present the same information, a slide deck would be the best option. To analyze numbers tracked a spreadsheet and to catalog the whole thing for future reference and data analytics, a database would be the way to go.
References
TIOBE. (2021). TIOBE Index Retrieved from https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index//
Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing
technology for all. Retrieved from zybooks.zyante.com/
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