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Aug. 22nd, 2013 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariSitting here at Mayfield Park for lunch (I get to spend an hour a day in a garden full of peakcocks! Sure Nintendo's 4th floor garden was nice, but this is awesome), gonna post this later when I have some decent WiFi. Probably at home. Won't be an issue after today, as I should have a replacement phone tonight, and with that, WiFi pretty much everywhere. :)
The job is going. The more I get into it, the easier it becomes, the more I realize it's not what I want to be doing. Not that I hate it...I don't like it, though. And it's lead to something I haven't felt in a long time.
At most of my jobs, I can quickly take command of my work. At Nintendo it worked well enough that I pushed way up into the upper echelons of our Tech department. At Speakeasy, it lead to me performing lead duties during an emergency (Everyone's home sick, you're the senior tech in the building O_o; ). At Wincor I even became the overnight lead in method, if not in name.
But here, I'm NOT the breakout star. That's one of my coworkers whose done this kind of support before. He's the Goto-Person for all things, and I'm second to him. Not used to that, and I'm trying to avoid a lot of backseat driving, especially as there's no real documentation or duties and I'm prone to going into "Okay, no one is progressing, I'm taking over" mode (also known as "THE EMPEROR IS MOST DISPLEASED WITH YOUR APPARENT LACK OF PROGRESS" mode).
Once my heart and mind agreed on teriminology and a peace accord between the two was signed, things got better. The plan for now is to use the job and it's high pay to get the apartment. After that, look for something more in my vein of work, while basking in the big paychecks. I've gotten some pushback about that from folks, because it is a ton of money they're sending me, but i'm willing to take paycuts for work I like (as much as I loved Nintendo, they paid pretty badly, but I stuck with them because I liked (most) every day I worked there).
Off the work front, things are finally getting better at home. I've had some time for a little organizing, and I'm hoping to have one room setup and ready to clear out by the end of the week (minus furniture). The plan is to, frankly, pilfer Dean's leftovers for anything I can use, take it to the new apartment, and whatever's left is trashed, sold, or packed for later shipping. If it's a lot of stuff, I'll rent a small storage space and pack his stuff there.
Saria (The Alienware Laptop) has been cleaned off and reinstalled with Windows 7 and ArchLinux. Not a small feat for a computer that had no optical drive. This machine is a freaking monster. Of the PC and the other laptop, it's the most powerful, most resourceful of them all. Fi, the older desktop, has been relegated to fileserver. Midna, the midlevel laptop is the around the house laptop. Saria is the Take everywhere laptop, except when you want to play a PC game because, my god, it's full of stars.
Austin has been a bit lonely, to be honest. Other than making friends with my neighbors, I haven't seen anyone but Dean and family in a while. I'm hoping to become more social once everything calms down in October, in timefor the haloween festivities.
I'm missing Washington more than I thought I would. For a place where I spent every minute bitching about going home, now that I'm here, I'm missing the mountains. Sometimes I forget I'm in Texas and will have an idea to run/ into a logging road somewhere....then remember there are no logging roads out here.
But I have my Hill Country back...that's meant so so so much. And even though it's about 98 in the garden I'm sitting at, it feels like home. I've missed it.
The job is going. The more I get into it, the easier it becomes, the more I realize it's not what I want to be doing. Not that I hate it...I don't like it, though. And it's lead to something I haven't felt in a long time.
At most of my jobs, I can quickly take command of my work. At Nintendo it worked well enough that I pushed way up into the upper echelons of our Tech department. At Speakeasy, it lead to me performing lead duties during an emergency (Everyone's home sick, you're the senior tech in the building O_o; ). At Wincor I even became the overnight lead in method, if not in name.
But here, I'm NOT the breakout star. That's one of my coworkers whose done this kind of support before. He's the Goto-Person for all things, and I'm second to him. Not used to that, and I'm trying to avoid a lot of backseat driving, especially as there's no real documentation or duties and I'm prone to going into "Okay, no one is progressing, I'm taking over" mode (also known as "THE EMPEROR IS MOST DISPLEASED WITH YOUR APPARENT LACK OF PROGRESS" mode).
Once my heart and mind agreed on teriminology and a peace accord between the two was signed, things got better. The plan for now is to use the job and it's high pay to get the apartment. After that, look for something more in my vein of work, while basking in the big paychecks. I've gotten some pushback about that from folks, because it is a ton of money they're sending me, but i'm willing to take paycuts for work I like (as much as I loved Nintendo, they paid pretty badly, but I stuck with them because I liked (most) every day I worked there).
Off the work front, things are finally getting better at home. I've had some time for a little organizing, and I'm hoping to have one room setup and ready to clear out by the end of the week (minus furniture). The plan is to, frankly, pilfer Dean's leftovers for anything I can use, take it to the new apartment, and whatever's left is trashed, sold, or packed for later shipping. If it's a lot of stuff, I'll rent a small storage space and pack his stuff there.
Saria (The Alienware Laptop) has been cleaned off and reinstalled with Windows 7 and ArchLinux. Not a small feat for a computer that had no optical drive. This machine is a freaking monster. Of the PC and the other laptop, it's the most powerful, most resourceful of them all. Fi, the older desktop, has been relegated to fileserver. Midna, the midlevel laptop is the around the house laptop. Saria is the Take everywhere laptop, except when you want to play a PC game because, my god, it's full of stars.
Austin has been a bit lonely, to be honest. Other than making friends with my neighbors, I haven't seen anyone but Dean and family in a while. I'm hoping to become more social once everything calms down in October, in timefor the haloween festivities.
I'm missing Washington more than I thought I would. For a place where I spent every minute bitching about going home, now that I'm here, I'm missing the mountains. Sometimes I forget I'm in Texas and will have an idea to run/ into a logging road somewhere....then remember there are no logging roads out here.
But I have my Hill Country back...that's meant so so so much. And even though it's about 98 in the garden I'm sitting at, it feels like home. I've missed it.
