Had a slightly late appraisal/probation meeting for my work at Rice today, and I'm pleased to say that I don't suck and have indeed been doing well, and thus the site (and its sister Retrounite) will continue to remain in my hands for the foreseeable future. Hooray!
I'm having a wonderful time. I'm getting paid to do something I love — write — about something I love. I've got a great team of people to work with, and the stuff that goes on "behind the scenes" provides plenty of interesting opportunities.
So that's all lovely! I'm very happy to finally be in a position where I can say this, because heaven knows it's been a long time coming — and not for lack of trying. It's all very well to say "follow your dreams", but sometimes it takes a very long while for those dreams to come true — if they do come true at all.
For my part, I'm happy. I'm where I want to be doing what I want to do, and I have things I can continue to learn and improve for the future. And best of all, I still have the free time to do the things I want to do when I'm not "working", too — in fact in many cases I can do things I want to do and actually call it "work", which is always a pleasurable situation in which to find oneself.
I don't wish to sound like I'm bragging too much, so I'll cut that short there. The knowledge that I've passed that probationary period is a weight off my mind though — I was pretty confident I'd been doing everything I could and that people were pleased with my work, but I always get extremely anxious around appraisal time at any job, because it sometimes ends up feeling like the one time you really have to justify your own existence.
Well, that's all taken care of, now — so onwards and upwards, I say! Upwards to bed first, though; the heat still hasn't broken here so I think it's time to go lie down in an air-conditioned room.
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