I returned to work yesterday – quite a change from the past three months! I spent the first day catching up with the details of the takeover of our company, and starting to put out feelers for possible future projects. (I plan to leave the project I’ve been working on for the past three years sometime early next year.) The third person to see me after I walked in the door asked me if I would join his project! We’ll see – it is with another section of the same bank I’m working for right now, and I’d prefer to work for another customer for a while. My new boss is ready to make opportunities for me to change, so the perspectives are good.
Today, I returned to the project I was working on before my holidays. That was tough, because nothing much seems to have changed: the same expectations, much the same problems, and the pressure has almost returned to how it was in the bad old days, having eased off earlier this year. I don’t have to hold out much longer, thankfully.