{"id":767,"date":"2019-10-30T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/?p=767"},"modified":"2019-10-25T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T17:22:41","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-the-pinball-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-the-pinball-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of an AVP – the Pinball Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it like to be a pinball?\u00a0 I think I know – because I often describe my AVP days as “pinballing”.\u00a0 I go from one thing to another to another, back to the first and then over to a fourth thing.\u00a0 I zig and zag and zig again.\u00a0 And\u00a0 sometimes (but not often) I feel like I’m going down the drain.<\/p>\n

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This month I thought I’d give you a feel for a day of pinballing.\u00a0 I’ll save the gory details – but I’ll highlight the work.\u00a0 The key to understanding why I feel like a pinball is knowing that I rarely get to spend much focused on a single thing.\u00a0 I start one thing and then have to zig over to another, more pressing thing.\u00a0 I work a bit on that thing and then have to zag to a meeting.\u00a0 I leave the meeting and zig to issues that arise via email.\u00a0 I get through a few emails and than zag to a new problem that requires me to make some phone calls and put out a fire.\u00a0 I get the fire under control and zig to another meeting about something different.\u00a0 I get back to my office and zag back to the first thing I started with.\u00a0 And so it goes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample list of a single day’s zigging and zagging.\u00a0 \u00a0Just to state the obvious (one more time) – the day wasn’t one of methodically moving from one thing to the next, which is what a list implies.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a day of pinballing back and forth and across and over and around and back again to these tasks and meetings:<\/p>\n