Still doing this for quite a while is okay, though, maybe that's an acceptable answer.

It would be to me! Not everything needs to be a stepping-stone.

It is lovely outside. Too bad that means it's hot in my office! My boss's office was literally 80 degrees this morning when we were in there with the door shut.

That is nice, Connie. Would you be interested in working with QA?

Would you be interested in working with QA?

Oh, yes, I've been on the phones for nine years, I'd like the break, and I'd like to use my experience to help new people treat our customers better. We've got a lot of dicks and proud idiots who call in, but a lot of our customers are people who never wanted to use computers every day and just need reassured that they can cope with this. The youngsters working here don't really understand people who don't grok computers.

I'll need to remember that paragraph for my next application. Though I'll remove the word grok, though that's a surprisingly useful word.

I have no idea! Still doing this for quite a while is okay, though, maybe that's an acceptable answer.

It is an acceptable answer! It's been my answer for the past few years, but unfortunately, my answer now is "not doing this anymore."

Without having an MBA or a degree in Computer Science, I'm still not seeing a ton out there for me when I filter for jobs that I'm actually interested in doing. I did just ping a recruiter about another Dublin job that fits my background better than the other one.

For awhile my answer was learning my job. Now my answer Is something like refocusing my job and changing some aspect of the job to fit changing needs. The next job I want doesn't really exists yet.

That sounds really good, Connie!

Woo possibly better fit Dublin possibility!

My last one-on-one with my boss she made noises about not knowing what my goals are and I told her that I feel like I could be doing more within my current scope and don't really want to take on much outside of that and she kind of argued with me that maybe my accounts DON'T need more attention. So I don't know. But that's probably not really an issue until my review in, I think, May. Pretty sure it's before my official hire-date anniversary in June.

Of course, right now I'm all "why can't I just be on vacation all the time?" but I assume I will get over that at some point. I do like being able to pay my mortgage, etc.

The next job I want doesn't really exists yet.

And that's the other thing - I've only been here two years and this particular department has been re-organized twice already, new positions have been created all over and other departments have entirely disappeared, so I don't feel like having a clear career path laid out would necessarily be helpful.

Have we already made fun of the NY Times "Unplugging Without FOMO" article? [link]

The next job I want is, I'm pretty certain, the one I interviewed for this morning.

Which was a subsequent round for the thing I asked for ~ma for a week or so back. And I think it's all gone well, except that I'm exhausted and brain-fried enough that I don't really know anything for sure. Except I'm sure that I went yarn shopping and had tacos on the way home. That's the right answer no matter how it went, yes?

Holy moly, I have to put on a dang conference tomorrow. Please lie to me and tell me there's plenty of time between now and then to finish everything that needs to get done. Argh!

Also? TGFCoffee