The only predictable thing is unpredictability!

Hmmmm.  Work life has been interesting lately.  Also exceedingly stressful.  We are owned by a new company and they operate very differently from our former company.  I don't really have a problem with that and I am totally on board with learning new things and increasing the goodies that can go on my resume.  But the method of imparting data is sketchy and there is a lot of back and forth with people contradicting themselves and countermanding each other.  Add to that a tendency of micromanage and my immediate boss who I have worked for for many years has become so nervous that he is positive I am out to get him.  Truthfully whenever he gets stressed he thinks this.  But it has reached new levels of the absurd.  I am just doing what I am told and have showed him the emails that prove that.  But suffice it to say this is most definately a work for the money situation and not a work to feel good about what you do in life situation.

While I also am a pragmatist and believe that work doesn't necessarily equal fun, it would be nice not to equal misery! LOL  Today I spoke with someone in a similar line of work. He knew we had been bought and has a tangential relationship with the place where I work.  I also interviewed for a position with his organization when KC was an infant.  The only reason I did not take the job at that time was because my former company made a huge effort to keep me, giving me some great perks and a raise.  But it was close. I was really really ready to jump to the other organization till they sweetened the pot. 

G called me today about some business that we share in our work and then said "OK I have a question.  Are you miserable enough yet?"  I asked what he meant and he said that he knew my new bosses were really tough to work with and that the person who took the job I interviewed for 6 yrs ago was leaving.  So would I be interested?  He has not put the ad in the paper yet, but wanted to give me a heads up.

Hmmm.  I am not sure his organization can come close enough to my present salary to make it possible, but it is attractive and interesting.  And flattering, truthfully to be asked.