bellus quies's Journal: Mid year Review

I just had my min-year review at work and I got in trouble. But for an odd reason. For being anti-social. Yep, for not talking with my co-workers and not fully "integrating" myself with my group.

Funny, because when I'm not at work I'm chatty, talkative and goofy. But put me in the boring world of civil engineering and I'm just fine hanging out in my head. OF course it might be because I'm in a remote office of only 5 people in my team and a total of maybe 20 people in the building. Or maybe the fact that I'm the youngest person here as well as the only woman engineer. So people don't really come to chat me up about their kids and I don't feel like telling them about the jello shots I made for the kickball game the previous night.

That and most of my mental energy has gone into starting up my side business of making roller derby t-shirts. I actually got a gig being a vendor for a motorcycle rally at the end of the month. So if anyone is in Austin for the ROT rally, stop into the 4-day concert that Havana resturant on 6th street is putting on and have a beer and check out my t-shirts.

Engineer by day. Creative Entrepreneur by night. Makes me really busy and wish I had more time to get to the Aikido classes I'm signed up for. I should have more time next month.

That's a toughie

[Shadow Wrought]

I can certainly understand the company wanting to promote a team feeling and comraderie, especially if you're in a small group. But if you are that different from your peers, than I can see how difficult that might be. Hopefully it works out. And good luck with the side business, too!

How are you liking Aikido? I looked into it a year or two ago but couldn't afford it at the time.

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[bellus quies]

Aikido is pretty cool. I'm still on the learning curve and still feeling it out to see if it's a good fit for me in the long term. In the short term it'll help me develop the mad skillz I'd need for trying out for the Texas rollergirls. My goal being to learn to fall down and roll and get back up skating without stopping.

Hmm

[nizo]

Tell them to hire more interesting co-workers :-)