Jim P. (4/18/2013)
patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/18/2013)
I don't mind pressure situations, where something must be done quickly with lots of people asking/watching.
Lol I've never felt that to be a pressure situation. That could be a normal day teaching computer programming by definition!
My last job, the way it would work is that I had several junior DBA's/programmers always available. I would do the work, and had the junior looking over my shoulder. Their job was to convert my mutterings and typing to human understanding.
I like to speak clearly and take screenshots and notes that I can produce a working doc from. Number your screenshots sequentially and also add descriptive text in the saved bitmap name. Learn to use a graphics editor that you can use to subsequently annotate your screenshots with, maybe make some flashy "point" icons etc. I personally LOVE the gimp, but paint isn't all that terrible for many things.
In reality, you could probably do it completely in notepad unless you guys really are stuck with the GUI. Where I work, I like to be a "language wonk," and pretty much T-SQL can be passed around, especially since Microsoft themselves are clearly aware that scripting can ultimately be more efficient than driving a mouse for everything.
It does help to have touch typing skills.
I agree, new hires and whatever are going to demand training time. If this time isn't budgetted for then yes I'm going to agree that you're going to be "stressed" or under "pressure," but if this extra time needed isn't an actual entity that you can discuss with management then yes, its going to be a difficulty that I'd probably not enjoy.