The eternal battle! RL vs. WoW
I've recently (like, less than a week ago) come back to playing WoW after a break of several months. A long night of wipes on Illidan a couple weeks before the pre-Wrath patch hit was sort of the last ember of burn-out, so I had to take a break (of course the guild swapped one of the flame tanks and killed him the next week, but enh! I'm happy with my BC raiding experience). Of course, now I'm trying to catch up to my guild at 80, and ideally I'd like to get carried through a couple raids to pick up some gear so I can maybe get in on Ulduar when it happens.
Leveling of course means time. You just sort of have to put in the time grinding quests, and because the Ulduar stuff is already getting tested on the PTR, time feels short, you know? Which has led to a kind of funny/sad sequence of emotions recently. I've been temping with this one place since November, and my temp position was originally supposed to disappear in mid-January. But my boss liked me and had me help her with another project, then loaned me to some other projects, and one way or another they've been sort of keeping my temp position alive. At the end of last week, though, I absolutely totally ran out of things to do, all the other temps that were hired with me are long-since gone (including these two fabulous retired widows that were the best ever), and so on. All in all, I was pretty sure I'd be unemployed pretty soon (I've been applying and interviewing for jobs this entire time too. College educated combat veteran < economy).
So I was sad and worried about job loss, but also kind of happy at the thought of at least temporarily having time to level, grind rep, etc. And then yesterday morning, my boss had a meeting with her boss, after which he comes by and asks me if I've got a minute. I'm like "sure," he takes me to his office and offers me a position through the end of May and a raise.
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So then I was on the one hand like YAY JOB and at the same like BOO JOB which is, I know, totally dumb. But also kind of funny! So I put it here.
Leveling of course means time. You just sort of have to put in the time grinding quests, and because the Ulduar stuff is already getting tested on the PTR, time feels short, you know? Which has led to a kind of funny/sad sequence of emotions recently. I've been temping with this one place since November, and my temp position was originally supposed to disappear in mid-January. But my boss liked me and had me help her with another project, then loaned me to some other projects, and one way or another they've been sort of keeping my temp position alive. At the end of last week, though, I absolutely totally ran out of things to do, all the other temps that were hired with me are long-since gone (including these two fabulous retired widows that were the best ever), and so on. All in all, I was pretty sure I'd be unemployed pretty soon (I've been applying and interviewing for jobs this entire time too. College educated combat veteran < economy).
So I was sad and worried about job loss, but also kind of happy at the thought of at least temporarily having time to level, grind rep, etc. And then yesterday morning, my boss had a meeting with her boss, after which he comes by and asks me if I've got a minute. I'm like "sure," he takes me to his office and offers me a position through the end of May and a raise.
…
So then I was on the one hand like YAY JOB and at the same like BOO JOB which is, I know, totally dumb. But also kind of funny! So I put it here.