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Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
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Friday, September 17, 2004 |
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@HOME. Another work from home day. Could my life be any more boring. Actually last night was a late one for me. Justin and I went over to the Meury's for dinner with Don and Kris. After dinner Mark, Andrea, Justin and I went over to the Native New Yorker to meet up with Erik and Josie. We had a few pitchers and some good conversation and then headed back to the Meury's for a late night cap. Erik and Josie left around 2 and I stayed at the Meury's taking for a little while before ending up back home at 3:30. Lets just say my 9am meeting this morning was a tough one. Mark didn't even make it to work until 10:45. Slacker. Looks like happy hour is on for tonight as well. I swear all we do is drink, it's rediculious. Hopefully it won't be a late night. I'm tired.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
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@WORK. Ok so I'm actually having a much better day today. I think I'm starting to realize that I've let my priorities slide to the wrong place. I've been focusing too much on my career here at the bank and not enought on the growth of our company. I think I fell into the trap in believing that I was going to have a good future with a large company. I've consistantly put aside doing work for our company because I've been too burnout or focused on working for the bank. Well all that's going to change. Hopefully I'll still get this position in the other group and then I can spend time working with Mark and also coming up with a strategy to continue building our company. I think that's the only thing that's going to make me happy. I was trying to figure out yesterday why it was that I can never seem to be happy with anything. Maybe that's just my nature, I don't know, but hopefully I'll figure it out soon. Cheers!
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
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@WORK. I can even expressed how pissed off I am right now. I didn't sleep at all last night. I just layed there in bed with all these thoughts running through my head. I guess I should back up a little bit with the story here. My group is going through a reorganization that is being officially announced today. I found out last Monday when my manager told me about what was going on. I've been waiting for this reorg because I was going to be the one to take over the data warehouseing group. Well as it turns out, thats what my conversation was on Monday. My manager pulled me aside to tell me that the only person who is senior to me has all of a sudden decided he wants to move into management. I was given the opportunity to still express my interest for the position which was almost guaranteed to me just a month ago. The other choice offered to me was to step back and let my peer take the position. I was pretty much told without so many words that even if I did still express my interest it was going to go to my peer because he had helped my manager build this team in the beginning. So with all that to take in and having to give an answer right away, I said I would bow out and let my peer take the position. So now a week later I'm steaming. In some ways I feel like I just got knocked down a level because all this time I was being treated as a senior lead and had a say in the direction of the team with the anticipation that once the reorganization happened I would take over. Now all that's changed. I'm now going to have to report to my peer and my entire group is under a reorganization that really leaves my future here hanging.
So ... I'm awaiting the big announcement. I've posted to another position here within the bank and hopefully that will work out. I've also posted my resume on Monster.Com again and I'm going to take a look at some other postings today. I really don't want to leave the bank because I like the benefits I have here, but I'm just not sure if there is any room for growth in this company being here in Phoenix.
I'm in a really miserable mood right now.
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@WORK. I hate this fucking place.
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
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@HOME. Ok so I'm working from home today. I'll I can say is FUCK!!! It's been such a hetic day for me. Our freaking mail server went down last night so I was up until 3am trying to discern the problem and fix it. I went to bed and the phone started ringing at 4:30 am because we had some job failures due to an unscheduled change yesterday. I'm tired and I need to take a nap but that's not going to happen because I have so much work left to do today. I seriously think I'm going to take tomorrow off. I need some rest. I received a great E-Mail from my friend Mark today who just moved back to San Francisco. I'm sad he's going, but happy that he gets to start again in San Francisco. Oh well I better get back to the grind. At least I didn't have to get dressed up to go into the office today. Nothing like working in boxers at home. Cheers!
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