I’m a pretty organized person. I try to strike a balance between having things planned out and being flexible. There’s a cost to overplanning and putting more effort into organizing than strictly necessary, but I thin most of the time I’m glad I put in the effort.
One reason I do this is that I have learned the hard way over the years, that you can waste some effort capturing too much information and never using it later, but you often can’t go back in time and capture that information if you later find you need it handy. It’s like taking lots of photographs at a special event because it will never happen again, so anything not captured can’t be captured later. The same is true in monitoring and logging your computer systems.
I have found MANY occasions where having recorded details about current and past transactions from my job search has paid off, and I have made that as quick and painless as possible to reduce the burden.
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