This Is Me--2024 A to Z Theme
Friday, April 19, 2024
Questioner, Quality Controller, Quoter, Quibbler ( #AtoZChallenge )
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Printer, Publisher, Packer, Painter, Psychologist ( #AtoZChallenge )
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Operator, Office Worker, Order Taker, or Outdoorsman ( #AtoZChallenge )
Operator is a job title that could mean a lot of things, but when I think of the term I think of a telephone operator. Some of you probably remember the days when you could call "Operator" and get a real person instead of an automated system. They could connect you to numbers you needed to reach or find the numbers for you if you couldn't find them. An operator years ago was an actual human who could answer your questions and hopefully help you do whatever it was you needed to do on the telephone. My maternal grandmother was a telephone operator back in 1919. I never asked her about it because I never heard about this until after she died. Operator sounds potentially interesting in its time, but now it is an anomaly for the most part. Many jobs have become obsolete due to mechanization.
A few times over the years I have been an office worker to a certain extent. I've rarely been confined to a desk all day doing clerical work, but I have worked in an office environment mostly answering phones and filling out paperwork. But that is part of a manager job which was why I was doing office work. And much of that office work entailed being an order taker. Customers would call in to my office to place orders and I would enter those orders into the system to be shipped to the customers. Order taking was one of my favorite office related jobs because I enjoyed interacting with customers.
In my young adult years I fancied myself as a bit of an outdoorsman--to a limited extent at least. I enjoyed hiking and camping, but I would never say I was enough of a pro to be acting in any professional capacity of outdoorsmanship. These days I don't go outside all that much. I'd have to drive a bit of a distance to escape the urban wilderness of Los Angeles and I don't care to be an outdoorsman in the city. I like to watch television shows about it, but that's about as much wilderness that I can stand these days.
What are your favorite outdoor activities? Do you enjoy working in an office environment? When's the last time you called an operator?