Over the past year, I’ve forgotten how much mental energy an office job takes. My stamina has long gone away. Most of this week, I have been exhausted by this new job. I’m not complaining, just explaining.
We have been “address cleaning,” as it’s called. To put it in layman’s terms, we are sent database tables which have names, addresses, citys, states and zipcodes. Sometimes they have more information, such as a student ID numbers or e-mail addresses.
The purpose of address cleaning is to format the addresses to the USPS standard, which can be very interesting if you haven’t had to do that before. Did you know that there is a way to shorten almost every street name, IE drive, road, lane, etc.?
The tiring part is these tables, some were as small as 300 entries, but others were as large as 6800! When we thought we were done, they were checked, and the remaining errors were shown to us. Nothing bad, just constructive criticism.
Thursday night after work we went and picked up Taylor in Louisville, Ky. My mom helped us out and took a half day off of work and drove to Clarksville, TN to pick her up. They then drove back to Louisville where we met at her house. We then had to drive back home so I could make it back to work in the morning. We left as soon as we left work, and got back home around 11ish.
Lets just say I was of no use to anyone on Friday, and luckily my new job is very flexible and I was able to work only 6 hours.
So today I am doing some home remodeling and it goes much smoother with my lil helper! I’m re-installing our stair hand rails to a much more comfortable position, with new hardware. And I’m patching the rest of the holes in the drywall. We also picked out our paint colors, which hopefully will be done before Thanksgiving.
