Posted 22 February 2022 - 11:03 AM
It was touch and go for a while as to which thread to post in, but it turned a happy ending in the end!
2022 has been crazy, the most intense start of a year I've had since my divorce during Christmas of 2014 - though thankfully not at all for the same reasons! I have been completely swamped at work. Absolute non stop crisis management. We're entering our first year with a new accounting system, a system that has not for whatever fucking reason been calibrated to work with the new tax reporting system that the tax authorities implemented on the first of this year. In addition, it makes retrieving aggregate data almost impossible, so I can't really cook up a temporary fix. So that's fun. In addition several departments have decided to go full retarded all at once, as if they planned it together just to fuck with me in particular. Fuck me there's been some tremendously stupid decisions made, and without consulting me first, which they are very well aware they should do. But of course they knew I'd give them a very clear no. So more work for me to fix it all. This is especially aggravating because as most of my colleagues are tied up with making everything work with the new system, I am now all but alone dealing with non-system related inquiries, though I still of course have to deal with all my normal duties. So I've been forced to reading contracts in the evening, which is really a thing I love to do. In amongst this the GF also had two exams, and we've been helping my parents move, so it's really been quite the tranquil household.
Obviously, this was a good time for us all to get Covid. We didn't get particularly harsh symptoms (3 doses for the both of us), though it did knock us both out for a week at just the perfect time. I had more than two hundred important emails to go through when I got back to the office.
However, in amongst all this bullshit, I got a new job! I was contacted by a recruiter a few weeks back, and a couple of conversations, a few meetings and I am now on track to sign the contract on Wednesday. It's an amazing opportunity! It'll boost my career tremendously, increase my salary by quite a bit, and provide me with new and exciting challenges in what will hopefully be a less frustrating environment. As part of the position I'll also get the opportunity spend time in court as a trial attorney, which is something I've always really wanted to do, but has been unwilling to try as normally those sorts of positions start at a low salary and an obscene amount of hours. In this place I'll be the senior for my field of expertise, with a large amount of freedom to run my days as I see fit, while still getting the chance of learning the ropes as a trial attorney. It's great!
So yeah, 2022, it's a year. We're getting married this summer too, so it'll be one for the books I reckon.
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amphibian, on 04 February 2022 - 04:36 PM, said:
