more repetitous
10/10/2007
It’s nice to be back working in a start-up environment. Not that I didn’t treat my time at the Big Why with the same irreverence reserved for a start-up, but things are always different in a small outfit where everyone has a direct and vested interest in making things happen. Things at the Big Why circa 2007 is certainly different from life at the Big Why circa 2001.
What I did love at the Big Why was the fact that it didn’t matter whether you were some unhappy dead-beat engineer (probably called Harry) working on a small cog in a periphery and unimportant big wheel. If you have been lucky enough to be hired at the right time, you would probably have enough money in the bank to tell your recently-hired-probably-spineless-definitely-clueless boss to f**k off and pretty much do what you want (or not do anything), since he probably needs to pay off his mortgage while you bought your house with cold hard cash after exercising your gazillions of options. It always kept things interesting. And real. And funny.
I try to carry on that tradition, where-ever I am, but it’s hard when:
1. My name isn’t the slightest bit close to Harry
2. Unfortunately, I wasn’t hired at quite the right time
3. Unfortunately, I didn’t get gazillions of options
4. I can’t even buy a car with cold hard cash
I will try to make do with just snapping at my current boss when I’m feeling particularly adventurous.
In other news: it’s raining tonight. Another first for me in this new land. According to the weather widget on my browser, it should be 15°C outside, but it feels a lot lower than that. The room, however, is toasty, thanks to the lights and my laptop. Tomorrow looks to be a 19°C sunny day, so perhaps I don’t need a sweater.
