Journal Anitra's Journal: Job - Two months down 1
One month of full-time left. Three weeks, really - I'm taking a week of unpaid vacation to go home & go sailing before school starts. Then I have at least two months of part-time, but more likely I will be working here part-time through December. My boss really wants to offer me a full-time job, but is not sure if there will be money in the budget to allow it.
I really should be happy with this opportunity: I'm making more money than I ever have before, I'm actually working in IT (at least mostly), and I'll be able to work & pay my rent while I'm finishing up my classes this fall.
But I don't enjoy much of the work I do here. Even though they've given me (almost) as much responsibility as a "real" webdev, the work is boring. I like interacting with the clients and figuring out their requirements, I like building spiffy pages that they'll be happy with. But most of my work is reworking templated pages, or doing QA. I'd imagine I'll get to do a bit more if I'm a salaried employee... or at least I'd hope so. I tried to get some work with the IT group, so I might actually learn something, but my boss said that we were too busy with one of the webdevs on extended vacation; they needed me too much here. Bullshit. I've been spending the last 2-3 days only doing QA and minor fixes, both of which I'd still be able to get done (OK, the QA would go slower) if I was working on other things.
I'm hoping it won't be so bad once I'm only working here 24 hours/week instead of 40, but I don't think that will address the root of the problem: I'm bored and I'm not being challenged. It'd be really nice if the people were a little geekier too, seeing as this is an IT company, but I'll take what I can get.
Need to polish up my resume (AGAIN) and start job-hunting for real - at least this time I have 4-5 months, and I'll be able to relocate.
Newsflash (Score:2)
My experience has been that the vast majority of work that everyone does is boring and unchallenging. At best, you can strive for an 80/20 balance, that is, 80% of what you do is what you enjoy, 20% if what you do is just what you tolerate to get to have the other 80%.
Unless you find some sort of small, start-up type of organization (which will demand a minimum of 70 hours a week