Today it’s my birthday and to celebrate getting older I am staying at home, drinking coffee and watching a couple of episodes of The Wire. I had hoped to get some gaming in, but it looks like it is not to be this evening. Instead I will commiserate myself later by going and watching big, dumb, brain action movies with giant robots.
Also celebration-worthy is the observation that yesterday was my last day in IT administration (at least for the foreseeable future). On Monday I start a new job reforming corporates (or something), a career path I suspect I will come to refer to as Mission Impossible, or perhaps something better.
It will be nice to have a change, and that’s certainly what this is going to be. After meeting with my new supervisor yesterday, I get the impression that my role will be to wield a whip hand to keep a particular three year reform project to schedule, by politely annoying people and reminding they said they would do things, and then snitching on them when they don’t. Well, there’s probably more to it than that, but that’s the basic gist. What seems to be worrying is how many people keep telling me that it will be “good for my career prospects” and “a real feather in my cap” and that these things will look good on my CV.
Little do they understand how very slightly I care about such things. Still, it was rather flattering yesterday to be asked, just before I left, if I would like a temporary promotion for the job I haven’t started yet…