Today, or rather, Wednesday (yesterday! w00t!) marked the completion of whatever editorial content that had to go out to the designers. With the CeBIT trip and all, there was quite a lot to do, not to mention a supplement that was to be put in the April issue. Reviews, news, whatever; it's all done. What's left to do is check whatever my long suffering designer's laid out, and then send it all to the printers. Oh wait. There's still the cover. Bah. Still, at least the mag's 99% done, even though it's going to be horribly late this month.
What also happened earlier today was that I got word of something i'd been waiting for. Now that i've got official word, i'm kind of apprehensive about the whole thing. Am I making the right move? Will they make an effort to keep me around? In some ways, this is probably the next logical progression for me, but I can't help but feel that I owe them, and that staying is the right thing to do, even if it means living from hand to mouth for the next year or so. Times like this, maybe a return to religion would help, even if only for peace of mind. Maybe a night's sleep will help make things clearer, help me to see something I couldn't.
Yeah, the decision can be pretty hard to make. I actually wanted to leave a looooong time ago, but decided to stay because I didn’t want to give up the work environment. I think after awhile you just get kinda complacent about your workplace and the change in environment just seems like a scary decision, because you never know what you’ll get. In the end though, I don’t regret it, it was about time I moved on anyway. Nevermind the change was a little unstable and ended up in my current unemployed status, heh heh heh.
Comment by whiterabbit — March 30, 2006 @ 5:38 am
Complacency is the exact thing I do want to avoid, but yet something tells me that short of starting my own company, i’ll probably not have this kind of work environment again. It’s nice to feel like the workplace and your colleagues are your family away from home, and going back to the corporate must-wear-shirts-to-work environment was something I swore off when I quit my last job.
I joined this company more or less on this exact same date, three years ago. Its almost ironic that i’m considering giving notice on the same day.
Comment by ebolasaurus — March 30, 2006 @ 10:29 am
To tell the truth, the people ( most of it ) and the environment are the two main reasons I stayed as long as I did considering I’m constantly bitching about the pay. I remembered starting work here right after that tight-assed horror of a corporate world – it felt almost like a wonderful dream come true.
At any rate, I wish you all the best wherever you are going and whatever it is your decision. The idea of you not being my editor is a little strange to comprehend now.
Comment by your long suffering designer — March 31, 2006 @ 2:33 am