Just finished my annual performance review with my manager.

 
Lately I’ve been frustrated with my job, but nonetheless, I worked my ass off and got rave reviews. I’ll have to wait until December to find out what the pay-off will be for my efforts. It better be good (no pun intended).

 
The talk actually helped me feel better about going forward in this position and under the tutelage of my manager. We’re actually very much alike – young, smart, talented, driven women – and the area we struggled with the most is communication. But hey, we’re techies! We don’t DO communication, and I have my own personal issue with communication, so I gotta do better with that in the future. I’m only hurting myself if I don’t (hence the built up frustration).

 
I’m light-weight excited about the projects coming up for the next year. But one thing I refuse to do again, is event planning. Somehow……(because I’m so damn competent!)……I got suckered into planning our Annual Sales Kick-Off Meeting. Dammit!! I’ll be glad when Thursday afternoon (3pm to be exact) finally comes around. I think I’ll celebrate that night, and stay home on Friday. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

 
But at least the higher ups will know my name. Could be a good or bad thing, depending on how this event turns out.

 
And in the time of economic struggle (both nation and world wide), my company is actually doing fairly well. Praise.Him!! While the threat is still out there, I can say that I’m comfortable with the likelihood that my company will not only keep me around, but also increase my earning potential.

 
So yeah, all in all, things are definitely pos-i-tive.

 

P.S. Watch this clip on Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama.

 

 

 

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