"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Sunday, July 18, 2010

First Week

~Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
~George Halas

Alright, sorry I haven't blogged in almost a week... it's been crazy. Work is going well-but is SO exhausting. I get up at five, start work at six thirty, get off at three... and I've had several two hour naps-before going to bed at ten thirty. And, my upper back is killing me.

Let me start over, that didn't sound very positive. Haha, I actually think I'm getting better. I'm sewing elastic on and my biggest problem is getting it to lie flat when I'm done. Like, so the elastic isn't bunched up and wavy. But I'm starting to get used to the number thing on the side of my machine... if I want the length longer, the numbers go down... shorter, the numbers go up. Sorry if that doesn't make much sense.

Oh my, I'd have to say my biggest problem, my biggest mistake, was when I put the elastic on backwards. See, there is a side with ridges and one that's flat. The flat side is supposed to go toward me. We use big rolls of elastic and sometimes they are pieced together with red stitches or red tape. When those come through I have to make sure they don't get sown onto the material and that the elastic is still going the same way. Apparently, I didn't check one time.

I had to pick out a bundle and a half and resew them. It took about two and a half hours. A bundle is 40 pieces... that was not a fun afternoon :) But, I did pass both my quality checks. My trainer took three bundles and examined them and my auditor took three different bundles and examined them. And, based on Thursday, I am at 23% proficiency. Haha, that is really low! But I did half again as much on Friday!

Anyway, we are shut down for this next week. We covered the machines in plastic and they are going to clean the electrical stuff above us and what not. So, I'm up at Snowbird now! So excited to be able to stay the whole week! And, as much as I need to get paid, I think my back needs a break.

Oh, and, so, based on my task, I'm supposed to be able to do a bundle in 10 minutes and 29 seconds. The first couple took almost an hour each. I got down to about forty minutes and my fastest was in fifteen minutes! Then I did several in twenty. That was probably the best part of work this week-just seeing myself improve-it's exciting!
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