What I look at every day…
So Ron did a post the other day giving you a tour of his desk. I figured I’d give you a tour of what I look at through the day at Rome. It pretty much starts and ends with my email inbox.
The craziness of my job kicks in around the start of August and runs through the trade shows in January. If everything has gone right, February and March can be “more” realistic (not the worst for getting my shred on). May through July are all about getting ready for August through October.
During the busy time of year, I run this Advanced Find thing in my Outlook. It’s interesting to me to see just how much different items are going back and forth.
So first figure there’s about 22 working days in September. I received 2811 emails in my inbox this month…so that’s an average of about 130 mails per week day. I generally don’t include the emails in my search that I have rules on and get sorted into other folders (auto ship confirmations, Data backup confirmations, Warehouse receiving files, etc.). Also, my junk mail filters are pretty good so this does not include those for the most part.
What are the mails? Well it could be anything from an urgent delivery to a shop in Canada or working with our Ukrainian distributor to have them pick their boards up. This particular image has a lot of international distributor stuff in it.
It is interesting how the Internet has totally changed this all. I mean what would I do with out it? Just think, you’d just be playing Tetris right now instead of getting to this part and wondering how you get that five minutes back.
song of the day