# Caffeinated and Confused: When Quarantine Life and New Job Stress Collide?

**URL:** https://forum.innovativeusers.org/t/caffeinated-and-confused-when-quarantine-life-and-new-job-stress-collide/643
**Category:** Regional Groups
**Tags:** iug-east, polaris
**Created:** [November 23, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.innovativeusers.org/t/caffeinated-and-confused-when-quarantine-life-and-new-job-stress-collide/643 "2022-11-23T15:37:23Z")
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### Author: ![jmgold](https://forum.innovativeusers.org/user_avatar/forum.innovativeusers.org/jmgold/32/228_2.png) [@jmgold](https://forum.innovativeusers.org/u/jmgold)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.innovativeusers.org/t/caffeinated-and-confused-when-quarantine-life-and-new-job-stress-collide/643/1 "2022-11-23T15:37:23Z")

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Presented by Stefanie Maclin-Hurd, WAGGIN Network

Stefanie Maclin-Hurd started in her current position as a Polaris Sys Admin in October 2019. Six months later, the world shut down, and she found herself with a catalog worth of data, and no traditional tech background as she suddenly needed to handle twenty libraries remotely among closures and other uncertainties.

In this presentation, she’ll discuss:

- What resources were helpful to a tech and Polaris newbie when the traditional in-person gatherings were not happening
- Teaching herself on topics like cloud computing and wireless networking
- The many trials and errors that happened behind the scenes as she needed to make changes to keep the catalog up-to-date during Covid
- How Covid improved her multi-tasking and adaptability
- How many cups of tea she _really_ drank when no one was looking

[IUG EaST 2022\_ Caffeinated and Confused\_ When Quarantine Life and New Job Stress Collide\_.pptx](https://forum.innovativeusers.org/uploads/short-url/pqnKM3gTODMCY0AZBeqxEhqUEg8.pptx) (2.6 MB)