So, I think I'm good at causing whirlwinds whereever I go. I never seem to be bored. Then again, most people would call my average Saturday or Sunday (sometimes both) boring when I do nothing. Perhaps this is because I just don't seem to know how to not be busy or try new things.
Now that I've recovered from the robbery - new laptop for home and for work, found my old craptastic digicam which is fine now that I'm back in the States, and am slowly making up a wishlist of media stuff and other little things I lost that I'd actually like back - well, things are still busy.
Between running around with friends like a madwoman, being a bad person and forgetting a friend's birthday, reading on the beach... and finding a new job!!! Well, yeah, excitement abounds.
I found a new position within my current company that I'm attempting to get. But corporate politics are a rather entertaining thing. Who won't step on whose toes; a manager (my manager's manager) coordinating the move for me who doesn't know me at all since he started while I was in Dublin; a crapload of possibilities for lil' moi who's terrible at making decisions; people pestering me about what's next. Let's just say that it's been fun (although my bladder told me to stop getting free coffee offa these people finally!) and I've learned a lot about the company - and frankly, it does my ego good - but sheeshush people. Hoops are everywhere and they're color coded but someone's dog ate the key.
So I'm just pottering along telling the truth in a straight forward manner that catches some people offguard (manager's manager) and now that I've decided what I want, well, I think I can certify myself as being clinically an insane masochist. I think I've said this before about a ton of things - but rather than going for the uber-easy team (one I'm practically been on before, it just has a new manager), or the somewhat easy team (the one I've worked with a lot on various projects - just not directly on their software), I'm going with the team where I get to start my connections from scratch. Oh yes, I've decided that I want "a challenge". Now, Yvette, let me remind you of all the other challenges you've undertaken in your life: college, move to MD, move to WA, move to Ireland, Semester at Sea, traveling alone in France, training an entire team of people technically senior to me in general tech experience, teaching.. but nooooo - apparently you're still young and stupid and want another challenge.
So here's to my new challenge. It's not official yet - but let's just say that I think that when someone mentioned going to a meeting about glue, I was sold. That's just too funny. "What'd you do today Yvette?" "Talked about the proper temperature for glue" Yeah. That's just so wrong.
2 comments:
good going on the position move — and working out the key to the colour-coding of the hoops. hope you don't have to jump through any more hoops than necessary (although that image is highly entertaining!)
going to meetings about glue sounds just hilarious too; I love the idea of that real-touchable-world connection in a software job.
Well, I've got some interesting meetings scheduled this week to go through the politics of the situation. But I'm going in with a smile so hopefully that'll just make it easier.
I really love that I get to program for all sorts of random stuff like scanners, crappy old windows computers, web apps, random hardware like integrating scales into a conveyance system, etc.
And hey, the travel bit to neat random warehouses sounds pretty cool too. Maybe I'll get tired of it in a bit, but I can handle it for now.
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