You'd think after writing blogs for literally half our lives we'd be bored of it by now. Or figured out why we do it, I have no idea why I feel compelled to write on the internet to only a handful of people that might still read this. Maybe it is just habit now? Maybe I just feel compelled to write? On the Internet? Like how people use a mouse with their right hand 'cause that is what they have always done?
Anyway, job stuff, got my offer Friday COB, it was what I was expecting, nothing exciting, better than what I have now though so that is good. So Monday I gotta tell me boss I really do want to leave and no amount of parading senior people into meeting rooms to get them to tell me to stay is not going to change my mind. Unless you feel like giving me a massive 50%+ raise, then I'd stay... This whole thing really isn't about money anyway, it is about throwing myself into something I have no experience in and seeing if I sink or swim, I am interested in seeing how this whole area of the business works. Supposedly it is the big money making area, I currently reside in an area where we basically beg for money to do projects every year, we'd probably get funding for about 25% of the things we'd like to do, and then after about 6 months about 5 to 10% of that money gets taken back due to "tightening of belts" so stupid. Like for instance, we get allocated yearly money October, for things like training and the sorts, I remember that in December, only 2 ish months after the funding came out, management were saying to "use it now while we have it" I thought they were saying to use it before someone else in your team uses it, what that meant is "use it now before someone above us takes it back" 6 months into the year all the funding for training is not suspended, due "tightening of belts" bloody hell.
Yeah so this new area is not suppose to be like that, they directly make a lot of money for the business, so it you need cash to do something you get it, you blow that cash, only have something 80% done and instead of getting canned, YOU GET MORE MONEY TO FINISH IT, what a novel idea. We'll see if it is really like that though.
Another good thing is that I'll be working in the new fancy building over the other side of town, and instead of having to waddle my arse down there a few times a week to do stuff I'll just be there. Which is good and bad cause you can always make a detour for SNACKS and looking at stuff, but it also sucks when its hot as hell and you turn up to a meeting looking like you just had sex with a dump truck full of extremely unstable water balloons.
I am actually pretty nervous at starting a job where I have no aces up my sleeve, I will know shit going into this, which means I'll have to work my arse off just to do the normal stuff that everyone else can do in 5 minutes, I see many early mornings and late nights doing "stuff", which depresses me but in some sort of sick way sort of excites me.
I have no idea what the hell I am going to do with myself when I turn 30, I remember when I was 16 I thought I'd be dead, in jail, or be a rich barstard by the time I turned 30. I am none of those things, although I think a 16 year old me would be freaked out but happy if he met me, I've come a long way, I never imagined that I'd be doing what I am doing now, hell I never even thought I could get myself a job or even get into TAFE at 16.
I hope when I get to 30 I don't do I lot of looking behind me, at other 20 somethings and being worried about being much stupider than the next generation, its funny at my work, I only know one other person who is my age, everyone else is either at least 3 years younger or 3 years older than me. It is like everyone born on the cusp of Gen X & Y decided that that work for big companies is for chumps and did something else, maybe they are onto something....
Anyway, job stuff, got my offer Friday COB, it was what I was expecting, nothing exciting, better than what I have now though so that is good. So Monday I gotta tell me boss I really do want to leave and no amount of parading senior people into meeting rooms to get them to tell me to stay is not going to change my mind. Unless you feel like giving me a massive 50%+ raise, then I'd stay... This whole thing really isn't about money anyway, it is about throwing myself into something I have no experience in and seeing if I sink or swim, I am interested in seeing how this whole area of the business works. Supposedly it is the big money making area, I currently reside in an area where we basically beg for money to do projects every year, we'd probably get funding for about 25% of the things we'd like to do, and then after about 6 months about 5 to 10% of that money gets taken back due to "tightening of belts" so stupid. Like for instance, we get allocated yearly money October, for things like training and the sorts, I remember that in December, only 2 ish months after the funding came out, management were saying to "use it now while we have it" I thought they were saying to use it before someone else in your team uses it, what that meant is "use it now before someone above us takes it back" 6 months into the year all the funding for training is not suspended, due "tightening of belts" bloody hell.
Yeah so this new area is not suppose to be like that, they directly make a lot of money for the business, so it you need cash to do something you get it, you blow that cash, only have something 80% done and instead of getting canned, YOU GET MORE MONEY TO FINISH IT, what a novel idea. We'll see if it is really like that though.
Another good thing is that I'll be working in the new fancy building over the other side of town, and instead of having to waddle my arse down there a few times a week to do stuff I'll just be there. Which is good and bad cause you can always make a detour for SNACKS and looking at stuff, but it also sucks when its hot as hell and you turn up to a meeting looking like you just had sex with a dump truck full of extremely unstable water balloons.
I am actually pretty nervous at starting a job where I have no aces up my sleeve, I will know shit going into this, which means I'll have to work my arse off just to do the normal stuff that everyone else can do in 5 minutes, I see many early mornings and late nights doing "stuff", which depresses me but in some sort of sick way sort of excites me.
I have no idea what the hell I am going to do with myself when I turn 30, I remember when I was 16 I thought I'd be dead, in jail, or be a rich barstard by the time I turned 30. I am none of those things, although I think a 16 year old me would be freaked out but happy if he met me, I've come a long way, I never imagined that I'd be doing what I am doing now, hell I never even thought I could get myself a job or even get into TAFE at 16.
I hope when I get to 30 I don't do I lot of looking behind me, at other 20 somethings and being worried about being much stupider than the next generation, its funny at my work, I only know one other person who is my age, everyone else is either at least 3 years younger or 3 years older than me. It is like everyone born on the cusp of Gen X & Y decided that that work for big companies is for chumps and did something else, maybe they are onto something....
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