How has technology changed your job?
In this question, I assume that technology refers to a particular set of things including internet, software, hardware, ‘digital’, data, analytics, and stuff like that.
I don’t think I have a good grasp of what my job was earlier and what it is right now. But I am pretty sure that many things have changed anyway.
For example, I think more about durability of storage of data whenever digital storage is in question. I have devoted a lot of hours, a lot of hours, no exaggeration, to organize my digital files and ensure smooth retrievability; while I found some cool techniques for certain types of files, it has been a mighty struggle. Now I don’t bother as much. I let things be for as long as possible.
In any case, digital objects have overwhelmed. Every picture, every word file, every excel file, every long video, every new version sucks. Overwhelming number of objects to handle.
Interaction and involvement with technology has exaggerated the realization that spending time indoors, in air-conditioning, sitting in the front of the screen for long hours, thinking of working using laptops, these are injurious to health, just as smoking may be. I enjoy my sleeping more, I value every moment of moving my body a little more and that helps me do my job alright so far.
Technology has made my job tougher, on the whole.
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