into the sunset

last night i went to the farewell party for two of my favourite people to work with at iinet. i hadn't been to an iinet event since october, and it was great to see everyone again. all the regulars were there, and a few oldies turned up out of the blue, like my first team leader.

it was weird. i don't miss working there. and most times i don't even really miss everyone. we still keep in touch on facebook. and i don't regret leaving. but for one night i was back there, and i wanted to be apart of it again.

but now i think again and i realise that i really like my job now, even if i do whine about it a lot. and my team now are the best team i've ever been a part of. in the space of less than a year, james and vanessa have become like family. and i was never as close to anyone at iinetz as i am to those guys. and here i have responsibility, people ask me my opinion on things before they make decisions. i get to help in the recruitment and training of new employees. and i'm in charge when our team leader is away. if i had stayed at iinet, i'd still be in exactly the same place as i was now, because i'd never be good enough at tech to be a senior, and there's really no where for promotion or moving into different roles without going to perth.

it was also sad, talking to the guys who were leaving, to realise that in the last 24 hours, the company had lost 16 years of experience. and in an industry that is still so young, that's like several life times. but no-one in management had tried to get them to stay. and that's the problem with the whole place. and hearing other people talk about the changes that had happened since i have left in regards to monitoring and stats made me even more happy that i left when i did.

so today i slept, and pottered around the house a bit, but generally didn't do much. i'm up early tomorrow to be at body pump at 8:30. then i don't have much planned besides maybe cleaning my room.