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 Originally Posted by bigred
Care to elaborate on the inspiring job? I've started to ponder what (and if) my next job will be as my past ones certainly were not inspiring.
i'm working in a sector (climate change response etc) that i'm interested in and feel like i have some skin in the outcome
about 20% of my role is figuring out how to create difficult datasets in SSRS off a variety of data source types and then building stuff, which is about the right amount of that type of thinking - i don't want to work for an IT shop, but it's nice to utilise some of that type of skill/thinking sometimes
i've got a decent amount of autonomy
not *too* much of my job is monotonous - it's hard to avoid even interesting stuff feeling that way sometimes though
key for me in the role now is that i've got decent sector experience and am somehow among the go-to people on a bunch of topics.
I was at a UN thing for a week a few months back and really enjoyed training people from around the place in some stuff, and then drinking with them afterwards. Even better, the week was based in that small town in germany that i moved to the month i finished up working in nz and went fulltime on the poker buzz in 2009...
my glasses are a bit less rose-tinted now though. It's just under 2+1/2 years that i've been there now and a lot of the learning phase/buzz that i enjoy in new roles is played. I think key for me comes down to a few things:
good people
caring about the result of the work i do
believing in the possibility of the work i do delivering results i believe in.
part of me sometimes feels like upping sticks again, hitting the road, seeing what happens. Likely off to south america in april for a month long binge of hiking/mountaineering/coke. Guess i'll make some decisions after that
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