{"id":49228,"date":"2023-02-16T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49228"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T03:42:18","slug":"its-all-about-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49228","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all about perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a thought today, that I realized that since 2023 has started, my job has kind of sucked.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say that I need to update my LinkedIn profile and start fervently looking for an exit strategy, but that coincidentally since the start of the new year, everyone coming back to work after the holidays and lots of people who feel they need an arbitrary date of a calendar before they start tryharding, it\u2019s been a bit of a lengthy rough patch.<\/span><\/p>\n

I still work with good people, and I like a lot of the people I work with, but it\u2019s just been frequently busy, the nature of the work I\u2019m doing often feels somewhat pointless, and not particularly gratifying.\u00a0 I feel that due to employee turnover on the project management side, there\u2019s some communicative chasms that are forming that\u2019s creating a lot of job tickets that are full of incomplete\/inadequate information, and I\u2019m spending more time on the clock playing detective and trying to track down information versus doing my actual job, and when I am doing my actual job, there\u2019s a backlog of job tickets, because of insufficient project management.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seldom do I have as much downtime as I used to have, and I\u2019m often going from ticket to ticket, and in this frustrating game of stop-and-go with trying to work versus knowing what I\u2019m supposed to work on, and all the conversations with my superiors and skip-level meetings haven\u2019t really gotten any traction at improving any of the frustrations of the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing though: no matter how unsatisfying and occasionally frustrating my job has been over the last six weeks, I still realize that I had to think and analyze and come to the conclusion that things aren\u2019t particularly great on the job front right now.\u00a0 And compared to where I was at prior to 2022 and changing jobs, it\u2019s still a relative cake walk, and just how abysmally terrible things were prior to switching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like, my old boss<\/a> at my old place of work made my life a living hell every single day I was on the clock.\u00a0 From her endless pursuits of hyper-analyzing everything I did, looking for any and every angle possible to criticize me about, to initiating a timeline in which I could have potentially ended up fired, because I didn\u2019t CC her on an email once, the word \u201ctoxic\u201d doesn\u2019t even come close to being adequate at describing my work life at my old job.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was driven to such misery that I\u2019ve become partially numb to when work is actually sucking, because my current situation isn\u2019t that great right now, but I\u2019m able to compare it to where I was before, and it\u2019s really not that bad in comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, I\u2019m just glad to be employed.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had moments of concern for my job, because I\u2019ve seen more people let go by this company in 13 months than I had seen in six years at my previous place, and when my workload becomes too trite and full of projects that don\u2019t seem worthy for someone at my paygrade to be doing, not that I personally feel that I am above anything, perception is reality to the working world, and it\u2019s not about what I think so much as it could be seen by those above me, that I\u2019m getting paid too well for the scope of work that I\u2019m being assigned.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as long as I stay busy and am helping keeping shit assignments off of people who don\u2019t want to do them, I suppose I can feel some modicum of job security.\u00a0 And as long as I don\u2019t have to deal with the c-word of the old boss I used to have, pretty much any job in the world is perfectly fine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a thought today, that I realized that since 2023 has started, my job has kind of sucked.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say that I need to update my LinkedIn profile and start fervently looking for an exit strategy, but that coincidentally since the start of the new year, everyone coming back to work after … Continue reading It\u2019s all about perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,100,37,83],"class_list":["post-49228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-comparison","tag-job","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49229,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228\/revisions\/49229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}