I’ve been doing some interesting stuff in work for the past few months. I’ve not being doing anything like my job for a long long time now. At the moment I have two “acting” titles and I’m covering some stuff and modesty aside, I’ve been doing it well.
So based somewhat on that and somewhat on where I want to go, I’ve been trying to get a new job out of it. This morning, I did. Effective August 1st I move into a project manager role. I’m very pleased with this It’s not perfect, the money and the profile change are not as good as I would have liked but I have a good chance to make something of this and to build on it. So that’s the plan. It’s my 4th position within the company since late 1999 and not bad given that I did start in tech support.
So as I may have mentioned, I am pleased. It’s going to be hard work for a while but that’s a good thing, I’ve been working hard for the past few months once I was finally given something to do. My annual review happened at the same time and I officially exceeded all expectations which was nice. I’ve exceeded in a few things before over the years but never so across the board. In one of my weaker areas, I even managed to pick up a single distinguished. So, yes, pleased 🙂
The weekend should be quiet enough. An old friend from Dublin is in town and I really hope to catch up with her. I haven’t been able to talk to her much in a long time and it would be good to be able to sit down. It might help sort out some other shit going on. Also nice to have someone to ping stuff off. I may buy my camera tomorrow. I’m thinking about it, I’m not sure I can really afford it till next month’s new and improved pay packet.
Now, after a long and hard week. I’m going to head to bed.