2013 end of year post
Looks like it's been a year and a half since I posted here. 2013 was a roller coaster year for me. In and out of depression multiple times, took a two week trip to visit the India office for work, and got promoted at work. But work has gotten to the point where I need to leave to save my health and sanity. I have nothing lined up right now, and too many commitments for trips next year to make switching jobs now easy to do. As tempting as it is to just give notice and take a few months off, it took me nearly a year last time to find a new job, and that came about through pure good luck. So this is a damned if you do / damned if you don't situation for me. I anticipate that I will not be at my current job by the time summer comes around unless there is a SIGNIFICANT change to the amount of work we do and the size of the team (we are currently at half staff for what we need to do, and so much stuff backed up waiting testing that some of it can't wait any longer, but we don't have anyone available to do the testing). I think 2013 was the year that change was needed but didn't happen, so 2014 will have to be a year of change for my own well being.