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A New Year and a New Beginning
15 years ago
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First of all, thank you to everyone who left comments on my previous journal. I apologize for not responding to them quickly enough, as now they are lost due to the database restore problem. We are often reminded that this site is free and we should be satisfied with whatever we get. My response to that is, this site has to be free, as almost no one would ever want to pay for such a level of service. :P
Moving on to other things, 2011 is going to bring a lot of changes right off the bat.
First, due to an extraordinarily difficult work environment, I have quit the job I got in late July and am going back to being semi-employed as of January 1st. I won't go into details here, but my supervisor has already had the IT department taken away from him starting next month. (Unfortunately, this was a very late decision and had I known it was going to happen, I would never have quit. Too late, now. :P ) After my exit interview on December 31st, he might be sanctioned further. I have never worked for anyone who was so destructive and oblivious - and this coming from someone who's had a couple of rather lousy supervisors in the past - and it is amazing to me that no one has called attention to his behavior and poor decision making sooner.
I am so tired of riding this merry-go-round that there are no words to describe my level of disgust with the way IT is treated in most organizations. I have worked for only one business in my career that really "got" IT and viewed it as a way to enable new ways of doing business and generate revenue rather than seeing it as a necessary evil; everything else is just par for the course.
I have a large amount of savings built up, so even with my very modest income from job #2 (a small software company), I should be okay for a good while. I'm hoping to bring in a little bit of consulting work here and there to supplement my income, keep me going, and help pay my part-time student tuition.
As disappointing as the failed job is - and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has been the biggest disappointment of my career - I can't help but feel that it was actually a good thing for me. This frees me up to devote a lot of time to my other employer and make it much more likely that we'll ship a high-quality product in Q1 of 2011. It also lets me get back into the studio and start drawing again, which has been almost completely off my plate for the last 6 months (much to my frustration).
If I ever want to go forward, I need to stop looking backwards and start building a new foundation. It's time to get off the carousel and start fresh.
Moving on to other things, 2011 is going to bring a lot of changes right off the bat.
First, due to an extraordinarily difficult work environment, I have quit the job I got in late July and am going back to being semi-employed as of January 1st. I won't go into details here, but my supervisor has already had the IT department taken away from him starting next month. (Unfortunately, this was a very late decision and had I known it was going to happen, I would never have quit. Too late, now. :P ) After my exit interview on December 31st, he might be sanctioned further. I have never worked for anyone who was so destructive and oblivious - and this coming from someone who's had a couple of rather lousy supervisors in the past - and it is amazing to me that no one has called attention to his behavior and poor decision making sooner.
I am so tired of riding this merry-go-round that there are no words to describe my level of disgust with the way IT is treated in most organizations. I have worked for only one business in my career that really "got" IT and viewed it as a way to enable new ways of doing business and generate revenue rather than seeing it as a necessary evil; everything else is just par for the course.
I have a large amount of savings built up, so even with my very modest income from job #2 (a small software company), I should be okay for a good while. I'm hoping to bring in a little bit of consulting work here and there to supplement my income, keep me going, and help pay my part-time student tuition.
As disappointing as the failed job is - and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has been the biggest disappointment of my career - I can't help but feel that it was actually a good thing for me. This frees me up to devote a lot of time to my other employer and make it much more likely that we'll ship a high-quality product in Q1 of 2011. It also lets me get back into the studio and start drawing again, which has been almost completely off my plate for the last 6 months (much to my frustration).
If I ever want to go forward, I need to stop looking backwards and start building a new foundation. It's time to get off the carousel and start fresh.
The thing I only can do is wish you will have a better job at the new year - 2011, Soba :D.
(By the way, did you just said "...get back to the studio and start drawing... o_O ? I hope it's about art !)
Good luck, Soba ! Chúc Soba sẽ có một năm mới khởi đầu tốt đẹp và hạnh phúc !
And yes, I will (hopefully) start producing art again soon. My empty gallery is embarrassing. :P
I'm hoping for some good things to happen. Thanks for your support. :)
I appreciate all of your help and support over the past 15 years. Hopefully something new and better is in the offing.
This nonsense hasn't been easy to work through, and I doubt the future will be any easier, but I'll be damned if I'm going to keep doing what has failed me over and over. Time for a change. If I fall on my face, at least I can say I tried!
(I thought you'd appreciate a little Japanese greeting as well :) Good luck in 2011 and thank you for being a great friend! :) )
I wish the same to you. Best wishes for the new year, and thank you so much for your friendship and good company. And to think you found me so randomly, too!
That's exactly what I'm afraid of!
I hope the new year is kind to you, as well. Best wishes to you. :)
Thank you for the inspiring words, and very warm wishes to you. I hope to see you again in the summer!