Standard IM here is Yahoo!
A few years ago I quit instant messaging because despite the fact that I did not have that many friends on my IM list, I wasted so much time doing it. So I normally don't do IM back in the States, but I know that the most popular IM client there (arguably) is AOL (America Online). Here in Romania, the most popular one is Yahoo! Messenger. It's interesting that the popularity of the IM clients is different depending on the region. Anyway, I made a username for yahoo a few days ago, so if you have not added me yet, please do so now so that we can stay in touch :)
kan.masato@yahoo.com
what a creative username, right?
I finally move into an apartment! The rent is 200 euros, so that's cheaper than any apartment you can find in Atlanta, but here it's really expensive. It's about two thirds of my salary here, so good thing I brought some extra money with me. I'll upload some pictures of my place later.
Other than folding A1 and A2 size CAD drawings into A4 size and putting them into folders for use at construction sites, I haven't done any "real" tasks yet. I now have my own brand new computer to work with at work though. I've been told to study fatigue analysis for pressure vessels for it may help later, so for the last day and a half I've been studying the AD 2000 Code of Technical Rule for Pressure Vessels. But it's like reading a text book...I have no idea how to apply these theories. So maybe I should start working with somebody and actually see the jobs get done in front of me, but right now I'm just sitting on my desk, answering calls from time to time. Maybe I should ask my superior for tasks? Or should I wait until I study everything in AD 2000? Whether they use me like a slave or just let me play around with the computer all day, the company pays me the same amount of money. But the same applies to me too; I spend the same amount of time here no matter what I do. It is intimidating to ask for tasks simply because you do more work that way, but I think I'll have to do it eventually. We'll see.
kan.masato@yahoo.com
what a creative username, right?
I finally move into an apartment! The rent is 200 euros, so that's cheaper than any apartment you can find in Atlanta, but here it's really expensive. It's about two thirds of my salary here, so good thing I brought some extra money with me. I'll upload some pictures of my place later.
Other than folding A1 and A2 size CAD drawings into A4 size and putting them into folders for use at construction sites, I haven't done any "real" tasks yet. I now have my own brand new computer to work with at work though. I've been told to study fatigue analysis for pressure vessels for it may help later, so for the last day and a half I've been studying the AD 2000 Code of Technical Rule for Pressure Vessels. But it's like reading a text book...I have no idea how to apply these theories. So maybe I should start working with somebody and actually see the jobs get done in front of me, but right now I'm just sitting on my desk, answering calls from time to time. Maybe I should ask my superior for tasks? Or should I wait until I study everything in AD 2000? Whether they use me like a slave or just let me play around with the computer all day, the company pays me the same amount of money. But the same applies to me too; I spend the same amount of time here no matter what I do. It is intimidating to ask for tasks simply because you do more work that way, but I think I'll have to do it eventually. We'll see.
posted by Masato at
9:25 AM
3 Comments:
don´t worry about work, masato, things will pick up :) when i first arrived i wrote articles all day because the boss (it seemed) couldn´t find much else for me to do and no one else could do it (besides him) because they didn´t speak english, ha ha...now, though, i have a backlog, it´s crazy. maybe you´ll have to ask in the beginning, but it seems like once you prove yourself, the work keeps coming, ha ha :D by the way, everyone here uses orkut instead of facebook and msn messenger instead of aim...it is weird how that happens, ha ha :)
Well, when I wrote this post I had pratically nothing meaningful to do, but now I've been given a pool of AutoCAD drawings to work with. These CAD drawings don't really make sense to me now because it's so large-scale, but I'll try my best represent GT right. I'm still in a learning process but I think pretty soon I'll be crying for some break from work.
And in Kazakhstan, believe it or not, people still use ICQ. And sometimes MSN, but mostly ICQ. Weird, huh? And there's a Facebook copycat social network called V Kontakte that everyone uses.
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