Christmas is fairly quiet for me this year. Family on the day. Catching up with friends on either side. A couple of days off work scattered around. Not bad, but certainly not the raging celebratory period it could be.
In a startling and entirely unexpected turn, it seems that I actually enjoy my job now. Not to the degree where I leap out of bed each morning, but I certainly don’t mind going in each day. I’ve moved teams, changed my day-to-day work from repetitive processing to more sophisticated data analysis. I’m no longer on the phones and have a great team leader and manager. It’s a rather unofficial move, but the only problem is that I’m not being paid what I should be getting paid. I’d still rather being doing this work than my previous work for the same money.
My team leader had a private chat with me on last Friday and said that he hopes he’ll have a more permanent solution ready by the end of January, and gave me a gift voucher to a department store as a thanks for doing the work I’m doing. Not bad at all, and a nice little christmas bonus (I already had to use some of it to buy presents).
To all my readers, whether it’s slow and steady like mine, or you end up with tennis elbow from unwrapping all those presents, I hope you all find plenty of joy in your christmas this year.
Hey Tyson, have a great Christmas! James
Hope Christmas was all fun and games for you and have a Happy New Years celebration.