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I won’t be able to get out of the office quickly enough for a weekend this week. All week we have been subjected to pile-driving on Queen’s Wharf – constant banging with accompanying shudders as they prepare foundations for whatever is being built next to the Loaded Hog. It’s quite unnerving to feel your desk and the floor quivering all the time. Also there are banging and gnawing sounds coming from the floor above where concrete is being chewed through for refurbishment. Arrrrgggghhhh!!

Sometimes you just have to wonder what cosmic force is at work … this is scarily accurate about me (well, a lot of it):

Pisces Employee Profile
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The Pisces employee can be a loyal and hard-working, if unconventional, worker. In the right position, they are able to keep their daydreams in check and buckle down on the detail work-giving their all to the boss and corporation whom they feel are worthy of devotion.
 
On the flip side, there is no image of extreme misery like that of an ill-placed Pisces worker. They will act as though their cubicle were a prison cell as they daydream of their own business or next vacation.
 
Unhappy Pisces workers usually won’t stick around too long. Often Pisceans will drift from one job to another looking for that ideal environment to which they will be able to commit and feel a sense of purpose. And if things are going in a bad direction at the office, Pisces will be the first to sense it. They’d rather pick up and leave then wait until the problem reaches a head. Pisces are often misunderstood by their co-workers.
 
Typically timid and introspective, they usually keep their true nature hidden, for fear it wouldn’t fit with the corporate culture. What motivates a Pisces employee to not only stick around but also excel? Try compliments. And show them how their work impacts the entire organization.
 
They need to know that what they are doing is worth something on a grander scale. Acceptance of their unconventional organization and planning will be necessary. Just because their sales report isn’t in the typical format doesn’t mean it is any less effective. Keep their environment bright and upbeat; and an after-work cocktail wouldn’t hurt.

Source: http://www.chefpalate.com/starsigns.html

As people around me arrive to work the conversation turns to how much they drank, how much their flatmates drank, how late they slept to get over hangovers.

God I feel old.

An opportunity has come up. What to do? What to do?

On the plus side:

• It’s in IT
  
• It’s the kind of liaison role I loved working in before – some requirements writing, testing – general go-between for developers and business
  
• Would earn almost the same money in 6 months as I currently get in a year
  
• Would be employed by a bank … possibilities for moving up possibly greater than current role
  
• Extremely tight project timeframes so would be a challenge
  
• Change of scenery – it’s coming up 3 years in my current job
  
• It would be closer to Fuel

On the minus side:

• It’s unexpected, unplanned
  
• It’s a contract role – good money but less security (4-6 months)
  
• I’m needed here – I am a source of support for my manager, people seem to value what I do – how will I tell my boss?
  
• I’m comfortable
  
• I don’t feel *that* enthusiastic mind you that might be ‘Monday-itis’ … even though it’s Tuesday but you know what I mean.
  
• I don’t know if I have that drive in me anymore – the drive that gets you to work at 7.30am and you drag yourself away at 7.30pm and work at weekends – I gather this is what is needed on the job

Shit, the pluses outweigh the minuses – I wasn’t expecting that.

I just wrote a very appropriate closing line for most of the work-related emails I send:

“Don’t worry, I sometimes confuse even myself with all these questions I always have!”

On one hand it is surprising that people continue to ask me to read stuff (from all parts of the organisation) or write documents for them or what my opinion is on certain things given the raft of comments and questions I always generate. On the other hand, it’s not surprising – people who are really seeking feedback are getting it! Openly and honestly.

I am somewhat distracted at the moment as what I do was very recently called in to question – not in a bad way – more a realisation that I am probably no longer doing any work that matches my job description. And if I’m not, then what am I doing, and is that work still narrowly focussed on my Group or is it organisation-wide? And I suppose, the hidden question, if I’m not doing what I was hired to do, does the organisation need/want me to do what I’m actually doing now, or am I just doing it because it’s there to do but does not meet core business objectives? There is no question that I am not being useful. And as always my output is thorough and of a high quality.

Interesting questions, interesting times. I don’t feel insecure about any of this. Truth be told I have been asking myself the same questions. If the big ‘R’ came along I wouldn’t be upset because it gives as good a reason as any to find a new job. None of this is official, it was just a couple of questions however I am surprised at how much it’s distracting me – perhaps this means I really *am* insecure. We’ll see.

My team decided to decorate my desk to welcome me back to work.

Found an empty box at work destined for the rubbish after some departmental ‘do’ and how could I not grab it for my collection? The Receptionist was most intrigued about my excitement – I don’t care if people just don’t get me. It now has pride of place on my window sill and I keep starring at it and willing it to be full of VC.

Comptroller … lucky I thought to check this dreadful typo – it appeared quite a few times within a document so I begun to get suspicious that it was actually a real word:

comp·trol·ler

n.

Variant of controller;
An officer who audits accounts and supervises the financial affairs of a corporation or of a governmental body.

The NZ Business Games are on at the moment and a few people from work have been competing. This morning I found an orange Business Games pen on my desk and just now an orange plastic bag turned up in and internal envelope –  treats from the Tour of Wellington event that was on last night. 

Everyone around here knows me!!!