credit: ammanteufel
My last post here was almost three weeks ago. Since that last post, things didn’t went along as expected. Career meetings were help during the last week of April, and the results were not as I expected. For the first time since joining the company, I felt that I had to do something…
The first thing I did was not to explode! I decided to “count to 10″ and think through my possible actions. The next step was start writing a letter explaining with my satisfaction regarding my job and future prospects had dropped so low. A two page letter has sent on last Friday to my boss… His way of approaching the issue was the expected calling to a private talk. I was congratulated for my “very professional attitude” and some actions were agreed to try mitigate the current dissatisfaction.
I’ll be watching the results of such actions and if in three months there’s still nothing to be seen… I’ll have to sit down again and think about my options.
Today was a hard day!
I’m usually a jack of all trades (and for sure, master of none) always ready to lend a helping hand whenever a problem or issue is raised at work. Today was one of those days. A day that started at full speed, with almost constant interruptions and no time to focus on my own tasks.
I left the office with the sense that nothing had been produced. Let’s hope tomorrow is a better day.
With the last post came sort of a promise. To follow that promise, a new post should have been posted every day since. Instead of a new post every day, what happened was the biggest gap between posts since the beginning of the blog.
Amongst other thinks, this means that the time that was usually stored for my ‘projects’ has been taken from me. This leaves me cranky and thoughtful. Studying for the PhD is one of the factors, of course. But, what else is taking my time?
That is a question I can’t still answer… but, I think fact that the biggest delivery my project has ever had was due last week had something to do with it!
The title might make the reader to think this is one of many posts that appear in this time of the year in blogs all around the blogosphere. Excuse me, but this is not the case… I’m not saying good-bye, trading the workplace with some tropical paradise to spend a well deserved vacation. I will, eventually!…
This post is about how I saw my vacation delayed yet another week. Yep! The costumer asked to get the delivery before the end of the month… So, first deliver the product, then and only then, vacations…
Now, more than ever, I think that I started sprinting the marathon a few months ago, and it’s still going…
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I must assume that usually my work comes home with me.
Of course I know this isn’t a thing to do often (or is it never?), and that good schedule estimation foresees delays to compensate… for delays! But still, I enjoy spending a late night remotely debugging someone else’s code, or compiling a library from scratch.
Tonight is one of those nights, much because the deadline is so close I already sense the smell of delivery in the air! So, here am I, compiling, debugging, until one falls asleep…
