Life seems to have slowed down, so much.

It seems life has slowed down and I’m now expe­ri­enc­ing life at a pace which I’m not enjoy­ing. I guess, my life is some­what robotic in the sense that I do the same thing every­day. At least, when I was in the ‘build­ing web­sites’ busi­ness, at least, I was doing some­thing dif­fer­ent. Instead I’m at a job which I’m not enjoy­ing, and I can’t make heads or tails of whether or not I’m going crazy.

The first issue that I’ve encoun­tered is a com­mu­ni­ca­tion prob­lem, I can fig­ure what I have to do, but every­one obvi­ously speaks Man­darin and my Man­darin is not exactly that good. I can under­stand some of it, but when it comes to absorb­ing it as any­thing use­ful; that’s where I fail. Essen­tially, I can under­stand the basics and that’s about it. I can under­stand what they want me to do, but when it comes to the ques­tion of “How?” they can’t answer me in good enough English.

I had no prob­lems before they moved me to another depart­ment. I went from work­ing for my job’s Gen­eral Motors depart­ment to work­ing for the BMW depart­ment. I thought, great, it’s a change from the same stuff I’ve been doing every­day for 2 months. Instead, it is the same in some­ways while also being totally dif­fer­ent in other ways. It is unnec­es­sar­ily com­plex. Why do I say that? Well, Gen­eral Motors cre­ated a machine to make the task of cod­ing other system’s machines to work with it. With BMW you need a sep­a­rate com­puter to con­nect to the hard­ware, how­ever the dis­play is all on this other com­puter; which makes things ten times com­plex, it need not be this way. Plus, on top of learn­ing how to run a new sys­tem, my bosses want me to type in Chi­nese words that I can’t even read. I can read some of it, but all I have is the Eng­lish trans­la­tion, but that isn’t good enough see­ing as Google trans­late is just not accu­rate enough when it comes to trans­la­tion. (It could be per­fected, but I under­stand why it would be hard to trans­late 1,000’s of Chi­nese characters.

What­ever the case, I’ll be really start­ing in the BMW depart­ment tomor­row. I hope all goes well.