gotshoo?

This is from a while back when we took the ‘poopers’, aka dogs, to the park.

We have two very different jobs. Mrs. Shoo is a teacher at a high school, and I am a IT guy for a consulting company. Our work environments couldn’t be anymore different. She wrangles some 20-30 kids per hour into a learning environment, assigns homework, disciplines, and prepares for the next batch of kids. She’s lucky to get 15 minutes of downtime during the day. I, on the other hand, have a zen like atmosphere that’s quiet 90% of the time. I spend most of day trouble shooting and problem solving issues, ‘We have 4000 missing records from this database. How do we get these records in the database without causing more issues?’

When we meet up at the end of the day, her stories for the day outweigh mine by far. How am I to compete when she’s telling me about the mess Johnny is in for cheating and hasn’t been to class in three days, then Suzy from fourth hour caused a commotion that spilled into seventh hour that screwed over the rest day. When I am like, ‘Dude, ran a query in the middle of the day in their production environment and caused a whole heck of a lot problems, and we had Starbucks this afternoon.’

No comparison, especially when your partner doesn’t speak geek.

Anymore I let Mrs. Shoo do the talking. You’d think she’d want quiet, but in the opposite fashion, it let’s her clear her mind by speaking to someone that isn’t yelling back or ignoring her. It took us me a while to figure out this method, but it works.