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How does work make you feel today?

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I work in a pretty big warehouse. My dept is pretty small tho. Only about 5 guys. Tonight, one of the guys I've worked with for a year was rushed to the hospital after an accident involving two pieces of power equipment. He was unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. In critical condition last I heard.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
I work in a pretty big warehouse. My dept is pretty small tho. Only about 5 guys. Tonight, one of the guys I've worked with for a year was rushed to the hospital after an accident involving two pieces of power equipment. He was unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. In critical condition last I heard.
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Yikes--was this the person from today's headlines who died at the hospital? Sorry to hear about that.
 
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Not necessarily work-related as it pertains to my current job, but I miss my old side "fun" job(s) from my HS/college days of playing gigs with a local jazz band. Need to shake off the rust, find a group to jam with, and start playing gigs again.
 
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The wife is due tomorrow, she's been uncomfortable so neither one of us is sleeping. Plus it could obviously happen at any time. I'm sure I've used this before, but this is all a long winded way of saying that work makes me feel like this today:

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OHSportsFan Last October said:
Been a hell of a busy last 2 weeks but feeling good. Looks like I have a new opportunity within the company that I'd had my eyes on.
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Didn't get chosen for the job/unit I wanted last year. Instead got moved to a different area I was not excited about. Kicked ass anyway for 7 months and another position opened on the team I originally wanted. Got it this past summer.

All great, until 2 months in, someone from my last team quit and I got "loaned" back (hooray for kicking ass and thus being asked to do more). Toughed it out, helped the hell out of the department with some big clients and finally got back to where I wanted a couple weeks ago.

So what happens now? Oh, just a management position with my very first group they need me to move to. 4 positions, 3 promotions in roughly 2.75 years at a growing company. If that sounds like a long-winded #humblebrag, I can assure you it is not.

Genuinely not excited about the opportunity to go back to the first team that I wanted out of (even going back as a manager), nor was I happy to be yanked around to the 2nd position (and back). Certainly all provided great learning opportunities and experiences, but it has been known I am where I want to be all along, finally. Yet I can't get settled into the group and career path I want. I need to "Corporate America" this thing a little harder apparently, as I feel punished for continually proving myself and performing well at each stop. Torn right now and they know it. Not trying to take a promotional offer as a bad thing, but pleased with where I am at the moment- even to the point of turning down a title and pay that would definitely help my career/life.

Anyway, so I'm having breakfast with the VP of Ops to discuss the opportunity and hear another pitch. If I don't see a Brinks truck when I pull up...
 
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Teleworking today with 2 sick kiddos....

On the whole, things are about to change for the good. Our pilot program ends January 20th and my division is getting set up as a stand-alone deal where we're going to be doing all of the network engineering for the entire DODIN plus doing the hardware stuff at the various sites. It's come a long way from where it was a year ago when it looked like we were going to get eliminated entirely as a group.
 
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Rough day. Lost a huge project that we absolutely expected to win. I am stunned and reeling because I have no knowledge of why we lost. I can't get the purchasing agent to respond. They gave all sorts of buying indicators and then I got off the plane this morning on way to another clients to find an email saying they went with someone else.

I need to go back to consulting, this account manager stuff is for the birds....
 
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