I'm finally working on the savings issue, since interest rates are absolutely pitiful since deregulation. ING has a deal that gives the best rate I remember seeing in my life, since I don't remember the days where average interest was 5-6%. I figure with some luck and perseverance, that may increase what I have available.
I'm now on Monday pool leagues, but out of a different bar, one closer to where I live and without the fun little dramas that occurred (rarely as a result of me, shockingly) on my last team. It's a great break, and there are some characters as always, although not as extreme as my last team. Overall, it's been interesting.
Work is interesting since every other person I talk to is assured that they will be the ones fired in the upcoming cut (prob. Nov.). Sure, I think that there's a possibility I'll be on the cut list, but overall, I think I'm pretty safe. So I listen, I reassure as possible, and try not to cast doubt where it isn't needed, since God knows it's already there.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to work in a non-recession environment. When I first graduated, it was 2001, and Sept. 11 happened the week before I started my under-employed job. From there, it was grad school until 2004, fighting for a space in a radically changing profession that refuses to change, until I found this job.
Now I'm watching the financials, wondering, worrying, as do others. I'm depending on my competence first, my salary next, and my age last, to try and hold on to the job despite all. I don't understand how those who have been in the job as long as they have can still not maximize their particular advantages over everyone else. I've been doing it so long (and without making enemies for the most part), that I have a particular person calling me for advice on office politics.
Ironic, considering the fact that I was trying to fight joining in politics all through high school and college. I was much more innocent. Now, I'm still naive in many ways, but I know certain things to keep close to the vest. In the end, as of most times, my parents were right. Politics is a way of life and the best thing to do is to use it to your advantage without actively stepping on others (something I'm highly opposed to). Work issues tend to take up most of my thoughts, simply for monetary issues. Other things have occurred, to be done in another blog, but for now, this is priority in my mind. I think I'll make it. I just hate to see the cuts for those who don't deserve it, and I know they're coming.
I'm now on Monday pool leagues, but out of a different bar, one closer to where I live and without the fun little dramas that occurred (rarely as a result of me, shockingly) on my last team. It's a great break, and there are some characters as always, although not as extreme as my last team. Overall, it's been interesting.
Work is interesting since every other person I talk to is assured that they will be the ones fired in the upcoming cut (prob. Nov.). Sure, I think that there's a possibility I'll be on the cut list, but overall, I think I'm pretty safe. So I listen, I reassure as possible, and try not to cast doubt where it isn't needed, since God knows it's already there.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to work in a non-recession environment. When I first graduated, it was 2001, and Sept. 11 happened the week before I started my under-employed job. From there, it was grad school until 2004, fighting for a space in a radically changing profession that refuses to change, until I found this job.
Now I'm watching the financials, wondering, worrying, as do others. I'm depending on my competence first, my salary next, and my age last, to try and hold on to the job despite all. I don't understand how those who have been in the job as long as they have can still not maximize their particular advantages over everyone else. I've been doing it so long (and without making enemies for the most part), that I have a particular person calling me for advice on office politics.
Ironic, considering the fact that I was trying to fight joining in politics all through high school and college. I was much more innocent. Now, I'm still naive in many ways, but I know certain things to keep close to the vest. In the end, as of most times, my parents were right. Politics is a way of life and the best thing to do is to use it to your advantage without actively stepping on others (something I'm highly opposed to). Work issues tend to take up most of my thoughts, simply for monetary issues. Other things have occurred, to be done in another blog, but for now, this is priority in my mind. I think I'll make it. I just hate to see the cuts for those who don't deserve it, and I know they're coming.
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