Administration rules!

Now I say this as someone who has never done full-time administrative work- but, administration rules! I love the sense of achievement. "What?!" I hear you say. Well, as someone who does a lot of work with people (which one might call qualitative) it is good to do some quantatative tasks.

For any of you out there who work lots with people, take my advice and do something you can measure definitively- just to keep you going. I just photocopied, stapled and folded 100 conference booklets. I have no regrets about anything I could have done better, or that I should have spent more time on it. I did it- end of story.

Maybe this difference between people work (that is, understanding how they work, interacting, encouraging, supporting, and lots more) and administration (mail-outs, typing, folding etc.)is the short-term vs long-term reward. My feeling is that we need both to keep going. But, ultimately, (which makes sense given that it is last) long-term reward is more important...