12th January 2023 - Work Place Hope
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Recently, work has felt fairly meh and sloggy. I had a few months of
fairly mundane, day dragging, irritating busy work while waiting for
big decisions to be made. The past few days has been spent doing
quarterly planning and it looked like another 3 months of meh and
sloggy waiting around work. Then I got a call.. I am moving on to
another programme and it is a great one which seems reasonably well
resourced. The change in mood and what not is crazy. I have been
looking forward to being in the office again.
It surprised me how much my mood changed from just changing project.
The last one was a good programme but sufferred from Agile meaning we
beat ourselves up over not meeting the expectations while having no
where near enough people. It does help that the new programme is
nuclear controls based and involves lots of blank page engineering
efforts. I do love being asked to produce a thing which does x, y and
z. Particularly when there are no pre-conceptions which turn it into a
'change one I did earlier' affair. It makes me buzz and want to fight
the corporate nonsense to make it all come about.
With all the excitement, I need to remember that there will be many a
painful point and it will become drudgery. The game is to ensure the
hope can return once again and make things lively. Having a new team
should help with that and hopefully throw enough new challenges to
keep life interesting. I am once again on a project which will not
enter service for a number of years. After 12 or so years, I am still
waiting for something I have worked on to enter service. The joys of
aerospace and nuclear programes I suppose.
