14 posts tagged “career”
Can this be possible? I forgot to Vox it up for like the last like 2 weeks!
Ummmmmm oh!
Work is going great.
Love love love love not being a manager any more.
It's like a huge weight has been lifted off of me.
Only have to worry about myself is OSSM!!!
Been going to karaoke a lot - like every Wednesday.
Instigated "Suicide Wednesdays" where we can only sing songs we've never sung in public before. The word "suicide" in karaoke means just that :) This is to encourage my friends and myself to find new songs to sing and expand :) I'm going again this Saturday. Fun!
Still taking pole dance class. Love it.
Pulled a couple of muscles last night in class though.
Very sore today but worth it.
Signing up to become a p90x coach.
This is also to motivate myself to restart it again.
I want to become fitter again.
Been slacking on the working out department.
Body's been hurting more because of it.
Aging sucks.
Staying fit is anti-aging.
OK I'm gonna rest now. Hurts to type.
bye for now.
The start up environment and I just mesh super well together. I am so glad to be back. So so glad. GSC was killing me slowly. They said they wanted someone with my experience and expertise but really, they wanted a politician. It was also a boy's club where tenure at the company meant everything. It was as if as soon as I entered the doors of GSC, none of my experience meant dick. I had to justify everything with data to people who have no clue on how to build Websites, no experience on building/creating Websites, and no interest in using the type of Websites that we were trying to build. How ridiculous is that? It was a super well paying job but man, it was killing me inside. My happiness meter has totally recharged back up to top since I left GSC. :)
The new job has about 50 people in the entire company. Provides free snacks of all sorts (chips, cookies, bananas, etc.), free drinks + beerz. Plus, the type of work that I do is challenging and super fun. I no longer manage people, which is really great cuz I now can focus on becoming a true leader in the high tech industry. Yay!
It is very interesting to me in question #4 of the questionnaire that most people thought asking someone to quit their job is deemed as unreasonable even though that someone was the one that said "I'll do anything to save this marriage." I was presented with that statement in the summer of '07 and I did ask my ex- to quit his job because it was eating him and our relationship alive. One of his direct report had just quit his job 4 months prior because that job was causing marital problems at his home because he was spending so much time at work and on work while he's not at work.
A lot of people say that family is the most important thing to them, but it looks as if most of us will make excuses when it comes to a career, or means to make money. Granted, everyone's situation is different, but I wasn't trying to make my ex miserable by asking him to quit his job. I asked him to quit because he was putting everything way above our marriage, especially his job. I can see that he was being seduced by power and he was turning into someone that I do not know any longer. I wanted him to get a different job at a different company that values work-life balance. It wasn't a cold turkey quit your job tomorrow thing. You know? He, of course, freaked out and said he can't do that. I then asked him to talk with his manager about working less hours so he can work on his marriage. He said he can't do that either. I then asked "then why did you say you would do anything?" Because it is a lie. Don't say you'll do anything to save something when you know that just isn't true.
There are people who value their family. My current boss, for instance, will not check his email in the evenings or over the weekend because his top priority is his family and work, along with everything else falls second. I will never say "I'll do anything for you" when I know that anything can be, well, anything, and I'm just not prepared or want to do just anything. But it was a good lesson for me to learn, and further proof that my ex valued his job / power more than he valued our marriage.
I'm really touched because my manager genuinely wants to help me become a creative director. He sees potential in me and wants to help me become successful. I had been a little bit scared to approach him as I haven't had a good mentor/manager/creative director that's been a good example for me. I've been protecting myself. But today's 1 on 1 with him really helped me open up my eyes and I really do believe that his intentions and plans for me are excellent. I will now also have an open heart when I approach my career growth. Yay! :)
In the last 2 weeks due to re-org and new hiring, etc., I grew from having 3 people reporting to me to 8 people. Whoa.
I instigated the work from home Wednesdays for my team. Hahahahhaha :) Productivity and happiness both went up since the deployment of this last week.
Just want to put that out there and remind myself that I do rock at times, and not just on Guitar Hero.
My boss e-mailed me to tell me that I need to attend a Web 2.0 conference in New York in September! Awww yah biotches, I am so going!! I think I'll stay an extra few days to visit the museums this time and maybe stop by my favorite karaoke joint in the Upper Eastside.
The drive for success is back -- even if temporarily, I am glad for the chance to experience it again. I've been working like around the clock and my manager is very happy to see the results thus far. I think I'm doing a really good job leading my team and slow but surely gaining respects of the program managers. I'm liking my job a lot right now and it just feels like things are, well, going my way.
Today is my mom's birthday and I called her to give her good wishes. There'll be a celebration for her at my brother Esquire's house on Saturday.
I'm having a cold beer right now, an Alaska amber ale. I am so damn tired from working so much in the last three days that I just need a treat to get me through the last mile. Yaye for beer :) OK I'm gonna keep cranking away.
Love you guys.
Just had my mid-year career discussion with my manager. I guess the perception is that I'm doing a pretty good job. A better review than I had thought I was gonna get :) Apparently I just need to speak up more in of an expert tone since I am being seen as a Web innovations expert of some sort. Neat! I shall then :) Other than that, I need to continue with the relationship building piece, get better at prioritization and organization, which I knew (never been good at that kind of stuff). The overall reviews from my direct reports about me as their manager is pretty good too... all Agree or Strongly Agree. So I'm focusing on moving the Agree to Strongly Agree :)
I like having a manager who is good at things I'm not (organization and prioritization). She's been much better than my last manager who wasn't willing to do any sort of organization change or encourage bettering of the process. And truth be told, since I've had this new manager, I've liked my job a lot better. It's true that your manager is the #1 most important element why people stay at their jobs.
I should be at the top of my game but I feel very discouraged.
[I do not like that word "should"... like there's obligations tied to it... like a backhanded comment.]
Definitely not a jolly rancher right now.
Today I feel like I am not passionate about anything in my life.
Not my home life [what home life?].
Not my career [tired of fighting with a huge non-well-oiled but powerful machine].
Feeling very unmotivated and bleh and a general what the fuck is the point?
Too much uninvited chaos.
Who wants to be my Farm Boy (Princess Bride)?
Maybe I just need to sleep since I wasn't really able to last night.
My pulled muscle is acting up today too.
Today's not-so-secret fantasy is to sell everything I own and take what tiny profits I make off of that and move to some cheap remote tropical island and fish.
