Too many blogs
[Chosing a blogname that wasn't already selected proved to be very frustrating. Many of the names I tried had already been used but many only with one posting from like 2002 and then abandoned. Others, blogger.com said were already used but I couldn't find a blogspot.com site for them. Maybe they never completed the site setup or maybe there's a bug in the blogger software. Anyway here I am, using this more a a personal notebook than for anything else as I really don't expect anyone else to read this.]
I am now coming to the end of the first work week back from AOM in Vermont. I found this to be a very hard transition back to the world of database programming work with commodity positions. Really this is the most boring job I have ever had. I can't understand how anybody who isn't making money off this business can possibly be excited about it. This has got to be the most boring work in my field anyway. Maybe if you never did anything else or were new to working with computers you could get interested in it, but I am past that.
Poor Tony who works with me thinks that this is the best team he has ever been on and said we work really well together. Huh? We've had one team meeting in 10 months (I've been here that long as of the end of this month). That was only because our boss was finally taking a vacation and wanted to get us together to review stuff before he left. We've never gone out to lunch together. I doubt there has been a full hour of non-work related conversation between us as group yet. Contrasted with other jobs I've had this is the most isolated group I've ever worked in.
At least my 1-year contract will be up soon and I will be free to pursue other things if they come up. I have one company I will send a resume to this weekend and see how that works out. Not very hopeful, but it would be a good change if I can get into that co. This place is just currently magnifying a kind of malaise I seem to be in the middle of my life where my work is coming to a standstill as far as actual creativity is concerned. I just keep earning a living but not making a difference.
My music creativity is stopped; pursuing instead a cover-band which is having trouble getting going and is not sounding that good frankly. Mainly because we don't have a bass player but also because we just aren't sounding that good. Is it because we are getting old? We should be sounding better as a band now that I am working with more experienced musicians than say 15 years ago and maybe it does but my standards may be higher? No - I think it isn't sounding good objectively. We'll see.
I probably should start writing music again. I keep starting new songs but I don't have the enthusiasm to finish them or even work on them past coming up with a new melody and then letting it vanish into the ether before I record any of it. I probably need to work on something besides work. All work and no play....
Yesterday I picked up a dead warbler off the stree about one block from where I work. I saved it and put it in my freezer when I got home. I think this is a good sign. I need to get the AOM email list so I can start working on the contacts I made there last week - I think that will help.
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I am now coming to the end of the first work week back from AOM in Vermont. I found this to be a very hard transition back to the world of database programming work with commodity positions. Really this is the most boring job I have ever had. I can't understand how anybody who isn't making money off this business can possibly be excited about it. This has got to be the most boring work in my field anyway. Maybe if you never did anything else or were new to working with computers you could get interested in it, but I am past that.
Poor Tony who works with me thinks that this is the best team he has ever been on and said we work really well together. Huh? We've had one team meeting in 10 months (I've been here that long as of the end of this month). That was only because our boss was finally taking a vacation and wanted to get us together to review stuff before he left. We've never gone out to lunch together. I doubt there has been a full hour of non-work related conversation between us as group yet. Contrasted with other jobs I've had this is the most isolated group I've ever worked in.
At least my 1-year contract will be up soon and I will be free to pursue other things if they come up. I have one company I will send a resume to this weekend and see how that works out. Not very hopeful, but it would be a good change if I can get into that co. This place is just currently magnifying a kind of malaise I seem to be in the middle of my life where my work is coming to a standstill as far as actual creativity is concerned. I just keep earning a living but not making a difference.
My music creativity is stopped; pursuing instead a cover-band which is having trouble getting going and is not sounding that good frankly. Mainly because we don't have a bass player but also because we just aren't sounding that good. Is it because we are getting old? We should be sounding better as a band now that I am working with more experienced musicians than say 15 years ago and maybe it does but my standards may be higher? No - I think it isn't sounding good objectively. We'll see.
I probably should start writing music again. I keep starting new songs but I don't have the enthusiasm to finish them or even work on them past coming up with a new melody and then letting it vanish into the ether before I record any of it. I probably need to work on something besides work. All work and no play....
Yesterday I picked up a dead warbler off the stree about one block from where I work. I saved it and put it in my freezer when I got home. I think this is a good sign. I need to get the AOM email list so I can start working on the contacts I made there last week - I think that will help.
D
posted by Calvin N. Hobbes at 8:52 AM
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