NEW JOB
(Posted 2008-01-09 18:28:28 by ArchPaladin)

This is kinda ranty, so if you don't want to listen to it, best to skip.

So now that my wife and I are married, our roommate is moving out.  I think
everyone is generally happy about the move, although I haven't talked to
said roommate about it in great detail.  I know that my wife will be happy
with the newfound privacy and extra space, and that's good enough for me.

One problem this does present, however, is that I need to find a higher
paying job.  The rent we were pulling in will be going away, and we need to
supplement that to help pay for condo expenses (as there are a lot of
miscellaneous fees attached to our condo, and a cost-of-living raise isn't
going to cut it).  My wife and I agreed that both of us would look for a
new job and see who got one first, although I don't think she is really
serious with carrying through, so the responsibility is more or less on my
shoulders.

In some ways this is good enough for me also.  Ever since I released my big
product I've been getting increasing amounts of heat and it is making work
very frustrating.  I took this job to develop software and maintain the IT
support for the company, but I've been getting shuffled into customer
support.  On the one hand this is expected for a while, since bugs get
found and people need training, but most things I've been told to change or
fix are design issues that I have no control over.  Specifically, my boss
has dictated that I develop the program to do things a certain way, and now
I'm getting flak because those things are not what people wanted, and he's
not stepping up to defend why he designed it the way he did.  Instead he
mandates that layer after layer of cheap hack be implemented to try and fix
a bad design, and I continue to take flak until some form of compromise is
reached and everything can limp forward.  End result: bad program, breaks
easily, and I get the blame.  I can try to push back and prevent the hacks,
but the only really good way to fix the design pitfalls is to redo
everything, and I don't think anyone wants that.

So needless to say, finding a new job would be good for me.  I don't really
want to expend the effort to go and look for one, but the motivation to do
so is growing every day.

I would just rather not be caught in the political mess that has developed
and seems to be driving everything.  Somehow getting married has spiraled
outward into friends feeling isolated, work stress, and financial issues.

In some ways I suppose it's inevitable.  I've learned that God uses change
to drive growth, and change doesn't occur until people feel uncomfortable
where they are.

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