Fujiko Suda: Worklife

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Feb 18, 2005 14:06 pm / Add a comment

The day after I got back from SF, I had a pre­sen­ta­tion for design con­cept report at the client site with one of my part­ners. I am really pleased with how this project turned out. Thor­ough com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the client, their con­tact per­son, good inputs from project mem­bers, neat report I col­lab­o­rated to cre­ate with my part­ner in express­ing exactly as we felt, good pre­sen­ta­tion on the report to have mean­ing­ful inter­ac­tion with the client team mem­bers. Another thing I am pleased with myself with this project is that on the last leg, which was the prepa­ra­tion for the pre­sen­ta­tion, was done in about 50 hours period, work­ing with time dif­fer­ence, with key fac­tors being:

1. Kinko’s lap­top sta­tion in SF to down­load pre­sen­ta­tion parts pre­pared by my part­ner, using 3G mobile phone to talk to him as I down­loaded the presentation

2. Power out­let on air­plane that allowed me to work for about 4 hours dur­ing the flight. I was so lucky because the power out­let was avail­able in my area of the econ­omy class

3. Using web stor­age to share large files, this time Tokyo Gas free web based service

I was con­fi­dent going into the pre­sen­ta­tion with thor­ough prepa­ra­tion, had a good reac­tion dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, and good feed­back after the pre­sen­ta­tion. Another great thing about finale to this project phase is that I did it while hav­ing a won­der­ful vaca­tion with my hus­band. I wasn’t too happy about not hav­ing a LAN con­nec­tion in our hotel, but no mat­ter since I was less than 5 min­utes drive away from Kinko’s. I started work­ing on the pre­sen­ta­tion on the last night in SF, after hav­ing had a good walk around down­town SF. I worked at Kinko?s for an hour while N was walk­ing around the nearby shop­ping cen­ter. We got back to the hotel room, packed, relaxed. Then next morn­ing, I went to Kinko?s and worked for about 30 min­utes, while again my hus­band walked around the nearby shop­ping cen­ter. After I was done with my work, we found a nice caf? called Crepevine?s and had good ol? break­fast, then drove to the airport.

Sure, I am not mak­ing much money off of this project. But that’s the way it goes. Some­times, I get paid a lot for not much effort or time. Some­times, I get paid very lit­tle, maybe noth­ing, for work that I put a lot into. But over­all, it always works out. Maybe the uni­ver­sal law of energy and force. What­ever the effort I put into, as total sum, life gives me back exact same amount.

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