This is the oddest feeling

[selenay]

I am trying to fill in the final half hour before I am released from the torment of my job for ten days and go to the pub with my colleagues, but it's the oddest sensation. Usually at this stage before a holiday (even a two-day break!) I'm trying to finish two dozen tasks before I leave and end up still here three hours after I intended to go.

Today I'm trying to find stuff to look busy with until we can leave. How weird is that?

It means that for once I can go to the pub with my colleagues and I won't start my holiday with that mad "argh, stressed!" feeling.

Of course, it probably also means that I'll spend the next ten days convinced that there were things that I forgot to do and worrying about them. Bad Sel.

I'm also feeling, um, cheerful. I keep forgetting what that sensation is like.

Yesterday my boss reminded me that we really need to talk about my career plan. I'd decided that, the next time he mentioned career plans, I would come clean about my move. After all, it's a bit pointless now to spend three months trying to find me a new role when I'll be leaving immediately after I start! So I told him, said that I'd be able to give him a definite date when I get back from Canada and he was remarkably good about it.

In fact, he had already decided that he wanted to pull me off analysis entirely and "use my skills better" and this will just force him to actually do it. He's going to make me a full time developer "because Da Big Boss was so impressed with Stonkingly Huge Project and wants all our stuff developed to that standard". I just blushed and babbled at that, but it was nice to have positive feedback on work that I'm proud of.

I rarely feel particularly happy with my boss (who has no clue about what I do and tells me that he doesn't want to know) but right now I'm feeling quite charitable towards him.

Well, it's back to the make-work for another twenty minutes and then I'm off to the pub!

Comments

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Hope you had a nice time down the pub. So good to hear you sounding relaxed about work - the way you spent your afternoon is exactly the way it should be before a holiday, after all. I'm also pleased you finally had some positive feedback from your boss. All in all, not a bad position to be in before a holiday, huh? :-). Hope you have a good journey, and I'm looking forward to hearing all about it.

Txxx

[selenay]

The pub was great fun :-) The day was oddly relaxed, which is just unheard of for the last day before a holiday for me. Usually I'm still there at 7pm, but today I was in the pub at 4.30pm. Very happy :-)

I shall blog the holiday here so you should hear all about it. And I've figured out how to operated AIM without downloading software to my aunt's computer, so we're good to go on Wednesday.

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've got a full day on Wednesday, but things are scheduled to end at 7pm, so should be able to make our usual time :-).

Txx

[sazzle-02.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, got your dues at last.

Hope you have a great holiday, and even if you worry that you've forgotten something, there is absoluteloy nothing you could do about it anyway...so why worry?

xxx

[selenay]

Because I'm a perpetual worrier? *g* Last time I took a holiday, I had emailed work about something that I'd forgotten by the second day. The good thing about going overseas is that it's impossible to do that kind of thing and work can't contact me. It keeps me a little calmer ;-)

Woohoo, got your dues at last.

Thank you :-) It was a bit weird to hear that stuff coming out of my boss' mouth, but good to have vindication that I'm actually half-decent at this stuff. Also good to know that I can be open with him about my plans, which is one worry off my mind!