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After yesterday's 16 hour workday and 7 hours of sleep: work. And I start with an unpleasant meeting. It'll all be OK, no? #RandomThoughts
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Treat an unpleasant encounter with humour and it won't seem so bad!
It's not bad. Just funny. LoL Naah, nit exactly working, hehe, a bit perhaps ....
Ugh! Making you go to a meeting after a 16 hour workday? That's definitely adding insult to injury. I guess your management agrees with this slogan: the floggings will continue until morale improves.
16 hours yesterday. Today I started with a meeting. I couldn't handle one yesterday midnight ...
What! They want you to end a 16 hour day with a meeting, then start the next day with another one? That's abusive!
That's my job. I have to coordinate and manage ...
Ah ha ..... truth comes out! You yourself are actually a Manager! :-) My Dad worked in middle management for years, and he was frequently in long, tedious meetings. As I'm sure you realize management in any organization becomes somewhat political, with all the bickering and jostling for position that being political implies. When my Dad worked for bosses who were concerned with getting the job done and benefiting the company, he rather liked his job, but when he had to work for guys whose only interest seemed to be self-promotion, his job was awful.
Yes. I avoided any management positions for years. And the lack of a university diploma helped. I did attend 4 and almost completed a degree, but in the end got a job and really needed the mones, so the uni slowly faded away and I was already researcging for my diploma. But that is in the past now and, as I said, only two jobs ago people started to push me into management. I avoided that with the last firm but in the end it did not end well. I left and started at my current job in october. At first I applied for a developer job and was offered a management job instead. I refused and I opted for the developer position. After two months I was slowly inducted in some procedures, asked to help with ..., to take over for ..., and 'suddenly' the project is 'mine', at least partially. I am having some problems adapting, understanding everything that is on a project that is in development for 2-3 years and I'm being helped, but still, I guess it's my 'new' job now. And I'm starting to like it. A lot.
Excellent! You sound like you'll make a wonderful manager, unlike some of those power hungry jerks whose only goal is to push themselves up the corporate hierarchy. I hope it works out well for you.
Oh, thank you. My goal is not to make my life only work and career. I beleve I'm mature rnough to see past the benefits only and have fun while being under stress and work with machines, code and people.
There is quite a lot of politics involved, yes, but the team is good and upper management great, so it's fine. ššŖā¤ļøš
That sounds as good as it gets! Cherish your position while it lasts.
I intend to hang on. šā¤ļøš