A Day In The Life of a Report Specialist

Approximately 6am MST +/- 15 minutes: wake up and shower

6:30am: brew coffee, misc tasks of "getting ready"

6:45am: pour coffee, get out the door

7am: arrive at the work place, log into computer, open up a word document

7am-10am: sip coffee, research various information, such as connection points for water and sewer lines, the terrain of a site, the soil type within the site, an aerial photo of the site - is there a floodplain within this site? - is there an outfall systems planning report done for this site?

Approximately 10am +/- 1 hour: wonder how much longer you can take all this research, eat a packet of brown sugar and maple flavored oatmeal

10am-noonish: shoot the shit with co-workers if lucky to get out of the cubicle, keep up the research (only a little while until lunch) - who makes up all this criteria and constraints anyway? you really think I can grade a pond to hold THAT much water? You've got to be kidding me!

Noon-1pm: LUNCH!! Dammit, this went by way too fast - it couldn't have been an hour already...

1-2pm: begin formatting the report - set up all bullets and numbering fonts and spacing, make sure all the colors and font sizes are correct. use the same outline and layout that was used in the report done yesterday, last week, or last month

2pm-5pm: work on encorporating all the research done between 7am and noon into the written report, produce vicinity maps, other exhibits and copy all the necessary pages out of the other reports you read pertaining to the site this morning for reference, make a PDF of the so-called finished product (they will probably make changes to all the formatting and wording of this report, even though its the same as the one they gave you to use as an example)

5pm: WOO HOO - done with another day - time to go play!!

Happy Sarcastic Wednesday Everyone!