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liralenThere are moments when I'm so homesick for the Northwest I could just cry.
It's even worse when I think of all the things I miss. Ah well. Especially the rain in this succession of drought years.
John and I are thinking about a plan where in two years we'll move out of Colorado back to the Northwest and I was brave today and talked with my manager about it, and she was very encouraging. We have a lot of remote folks telecommuting from their homes and in two years the goal, really, is to phase out my present job anyway. So we're talking and now thinking about what other projects and jobs we can get to fit so that I can be completely remote, have my own project, and do something still very productive and useful for the company and still have my part-time job, telecommute and maybe, once a quarter, drop into the San Jose offices (which are only a few miles from Santa Cruz, yay! visiting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flit), and get a bit of face-to-face time with folks.
It is amazing to realize that it could all change, and the simple act of asking, of talking about the things that may be beyond our control, comes up with such cool solutions.
It helps that my manger also said that she's really, really pleased with the work I am doing and with my communication skills at the moment as we're already remote from each other (with her in SJ and me here). It was also very blush-inducing to have her say that my efforts have proved to be an example for everyone in the development group. Hee.
It's even worse when I think of all the things I miss. Ah well. Especially the rain in this succession of drought years.
John and I are thinking about a plan where in two years we'll move out of Colorado back to the Northwest and I was brave today and talked with my manager about it, and she was very encouraging. We have a lot of remote folks telecommuting from their homes and in two years the goal, really, is to phase out my present job anyway. So we're talking and now thinking about what other projects and jobs we can get to fit so that I can be completely remote, have my own project, and do something still very productive and useful for the company and still have my part-time job, telecommute and maybe, once a quarter, drop into the San Jose offices (which are only a few miles from Santa Cruz, yay! visiting
flit), and get a bit of face-to-face time with folks.It is amazing to realize that it could all change, and the simple act of asking, of talking about the things that may be beyond our control, comes up with such cool solutions.
It helps that my manger also said that she's really, really pleased with the work I am doing and with my communication skills at the moment as we're already remote from each other (with her in SJ and me here). It was also very blush-inducing to have her say that my efforts have proved to be an example for everyone in the development group. Hee.
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Date: 2003-01-27 09:03 pm (UTC)do not join the bothell mafia
their health plan is not half as good as they say it is
and they have NO dental coverage! none.
Besides, Risu lives here. ^_^
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Date: 2003-01-25 07:52 am (UTC)woohoo!
i was missing PNW weather recently (it's been way fucking cold here - that cold where you inhale and the inside of your nose crackles and freezes - lately), but then i realized that i wasn't having that "i haven't seen the sun in two months" depressive edge. so i think it comes out even, as long as i don't have to shovel snow. :-)
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Date: 2003-01-27 12:23 pm (UTC)I so agree.
Colorado has days like that, nights, too. And I miss the rain.
Luckily, I didn't get the depressive edge. *hugs*
And we have a snow blower, now! So no shovelling! Luckily, out here, the snow's usually so cold and dry the blower works wonders so long as we don't trample it down to ice, first.
But, yay for finally knowing what I want. It took me a while, and it only really took John to actually spur it into consciousness. I hadn't really thought of WHEN I wanted to go back until John said, reflectively, that in two years the market might be out of it's doldrums and we might
have a better chance.
Yay for chances!!