I haven't posted here in a year, so that's what that is.
I'm not sure why I decided to start this post with the above sentence, but it's there and staying. Too lazy to change it. Bite me.
That last sentence may have sounded a bit harsh, but it's only partially true. I'm slowly getting sick of where I work. I've been doing the same thing for the last three years, with a few smaller projects squeezed in throughout. I was recently moved downstairs from the Web Apps group to NPD in somewhat of a "promotion". I started in NPD when I first joined the company in September 2016, then moved upstairs to Web Applications in May 2017, where I was then housed for a year and a half before moving back down to NPD to do more of the actual design work. The only problem with that is I haven't done a ton of that stuff. When I first moved down, I had a ton of Sales Requests (the work I've been doing since employed there) to do, and then eventually started doing the Shop training that I was supposed to do when I was first hired on three years prior. After that, the project I was told I'd be starting with another engineer was mostly underway on his part since I was away from the office for four whole days in the shop. By the time I was done with that training and was finally caught up on requests, the project was totally covered by the other person, and I felt like I was useless in that regard. They keep changing my responsibilities with it too. It's really annoying.
If that whole paragraph sounded like a ramble and didn't make much sense, I don't blame you. There's just a lot of thought going through my mind right now and it's hard to spill it out on here in an efficient manner. I kind of want to find a new place to work. There is another place a couple of my college friends currently work at and enjoy, but the only position available that sort of relates to what I'm looking for is sort of a step ahead of my current expertise. I did put my resume up on Indeed.com, so we'll see where that gets me. I've had countless recruiters contact my through LinkedIn, but most of them were sending offers while I was in the thick of SRs, and wasn't worrying about finding a new job at the time. My best window of opportunity was right around the time someone else from the Web Apps group left for a job that was much closer to where he lived. I wasn't doing much more than the SRs and easily could've picked up and left without leaving much of anything left to do.
Enough with the work rant for now. Onto my personal life stuff.
There are currently two other people I hang out with pretty consistently. By consistently, I mean almost every day of the week... or at least every other day of the week so far this summer. at first it was a lot of fun because I finally took the plunge and made my own version of a man cave in our basement, fitted with a 65" 4K Samsung TV, a couple nice reclining couches, and a great stand to match, so I can have them over practically whenever to game, watch movies, and just hang out. The problem is they're getting a little too comfortable with hanging out. They both know I'm pretty reliable with that and am always around, so usually by 5 or 6 PM, one of them is asking about gaming and either being at my house or the other one's, usually mine because of more room. I wish we didn't game as much as we do though. Not that I don't like gaming, it's just there are some days I would rather relax at home, game on my own, watch a movie on my own, or just bum around without them wanting to hang out. And it's not even so much the hanging out, I just see the same people all the time.
The only reason I write this here is because I'm pretty sure next to no one reads this stuff, and if those friends found it I'd feel horrible, but it's kind of true. I've also realized I'm kinda shit at saying no to stuff, especially when it comes to getting food/hanging out. My one friend is almost offended when I don't wanna meet for dinner. Not exactly offended, I guess, more like a friendly "How dare you." but then moves on from it.
I don't know. I don't really want this week to start. I'm nervous as shit about what's gonna happen with this project that I've done jack shit with because of Sales Requests. They're so unpredictable, that's the problem. I never know if I'm gonna be able to stake out half my work time for them and something else or just all of that.
I'm sorry but I'm done. I can't really seem to make a flowing anything right now. I need sleep. G'night.
