Confessions About Work

This is that post about the job. I found my current job about a year ago and promptly traded in long hours at a firm I didn’t like (practicing a type of law I wasn’t fond of) for something more fulfilling. At my present job, I have a greater degree of autonomy and there’s scope for career progression. The only thing is I’m consulting – so I could be terminated at anytime. This is hardly my ideal situation.

Ideally, I plan to stop consulting within a year and find a place at a firm where I can reconcile my love of money and need for social awareness and responsibility. I work with four other consultants who are very different:

“Young’un” in my department is cool – she gets me more than the others although, she does forget that she is a good 5 yrs younger so certain things, this woman doesn’t let slide. She can be a smart-alec and border on rude, and Lord knows there are days when I've thought "this girl has one more chance to give me a smart-ass reply and it's on." Overall, she’s good people and checks me - we work hard and we play hard.

“Feisty” doesn’t know how to act - it really is that simple. He answers when you weren’t speaking to him, interrupts you on a regular, crosses the line often and won’t stop. But, he knows that about himself and doesn’t take himself seriously. Once you understand this about him, and see he is happy with himself, you get it - I’m cool with this as I’m all about people who are self-aware.

“Spoiled” is sweet, considerate, well-mannered and, for want of a better word, spoiled. A lot of the time, she makes the London just want to rise up on out of me as she needs it done / seen her way. I guess it’s because deep down, I know I’m spoiled as well. I’d say she’s the one I’m most similar to in thought-process and temperament so a lot of the things she thinks, I think too. Spoiled started with us on a short-term basis – she left her last job and needed something to fill 6 months until her next job started. The job she had lined up got pulled owing to lack of funding earlier this year. They promised to review her situation in the new year, so she is biding her time until then.

“Oblivious” is interesting. Sometimes I wonder how he got the job. Whenever he goes on holiday, we waste half a day figuring why his cases are at the stages they are at. He’s older than the rest of us and apparently has tons of post-qualification experience that I don’t see. Somehow, he always manages to deliver when we are being audited. The head of department said he feels like Oblivious misrepresented himself in the interview as he sees Oblivious’ (in)capabilities on a day-to-day basis, but Oblivious hasn’t done anything so dreadful as to warrant the sack yet.

I enjoy my job, I really do. I get paid a good wage to give my opinion – I’m out of the office at a decent hour and I can afford to live in a very nice place for a great price. However, that doesn’t mean that I’m not looking for a permanent gig elsewhere.

So, that’s my confession for today