New year, new job
After months of studying, interviews, and (ongoing) career transition, I am tentatively pleased to announce I'm taking the exit ramp off Wall Street and moving out of the financial sector. (thank god) In the next few weeks, I'll start my new job as a software developer in the R&D department at a Big 5 company (can't say which, but take your pick), a group I will be affectionately and euphemistically referring to herafter as "Q-Branch" because of my new team's responsibilities to develop new products for the company.
It will be a difficult road full of learning opportunities. Part of the reason my (soon to be!) old job drove me to severe and prolongued depression and anxiety was the underutilisation of my skillset, the lack of learning opportunities, and the managerial disinterest in career growth. That certainly won't be the case now! Instead of boredom, the new pain point will be high levels of stress, but I can manage that. I can thrive on that, whereas boredom carries the seeds of its own stagnation, and I definitely have a border collie personality that would sooner chew off her own leg to occupy herself, than to sit idle. "Better to die raving mad in London than evaporate in Richmond," I guess. (see "What's Worse For Your Career: Boredom or Stress").
In the meantime, thank you for your support and warm wishes during the course of my struggle with climbing (and still climbing!) out of the creativity and crisis chasm. Now that I've, at least temporarily, settled up my stock with the things I need, maybe I'll rediscover the things that I want; I have a ton of fic notes that I scribbled down in notebooks at work, back when I had ideas to scribble down, and I'll be using my brief downtime between jobs to type up these notes. Here's to hoping it will help getting creative juices flowing again! Or maybe I'll sniff out a nearly-finished fic and try pushing it out the door. Let's see what happens!
In the meantime, always feel free to message me at my LJ or tumblr.
Love you!
Fumu
It will be a difficult road full of learning opportunities. Part of the reason my (soon to be!) old job drove me to severe and prolongued depression and anxiety was the underutilisation of my skillset, the lack of learning opportunities, and the managerial disinterest in career growth. That certainly won't be the case now! Instead of boredom, the new pain point will be high levels of stress, but I can manage that. I can thrive on that, whereas boredom carries the seeds of its own stagnation, and I definitely have a border collie personality that would sooner chew off her own leg to occupy herself, than to sit idle. "Better to die raving mad in London than evaporate in Richmond," I guess. (see "What's Worse For Your Career: Boredom or Stress").
In the meantime, thank you for your support and warm wishes during the course of my struggle with climbing (and still climbing!) out of the creativity and crisis chasm. Now that I've, at least temporarily, settled up my stock with the things I need, maybe I'll rediscover the things that I want; I have a ton of fic notes that I scribbled down in notebooks at work, back when I had ideas to scribble down, and I'll be using my brief downtime between jobs to type up these notes. Here's to hoping it will help getting creative juices flowing again! Or maybe I'll sniff out a nearly-finished fic and try pushing it out the door. Let's see what happens!
In the meantime, always feel free to message me at my LJ or tumblr.
Love you!
Fumu