Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Orange just turned the FTTP live to our area. Come tomorrow we shall be ordering the 2Gbps line, can't wait after being on 3Mbps for the last 30 months!

(I shall probably be posting to the ruining thread about the forthcoming issues with the fibre line installation soon).

 

I am, and I'm quite sure I'm also going to lose my rag with it

 

Back in "The Before Times", Openreach listed my hometown as to be fully FTTP'd up by Easter this year.
Before Xmas, there were Openreach roadworks everywhere, fixing broken or blocked ducts etc.
On Monday, the car park of the exchange was FULL of Openreach engineers & contractors, together with many family sized cable reels. Looks like it's finally beginning.

 

My senior got a promotion a few weeks back leaving a space open for his previous role with much nicer pay packet. I never even contemplated the job, never even crossed my mind once. Its not I wouldn't want the role but more the role wouldn't want me!

I was told today to keep my eye open for the upcoming vacancy advertisement and asked to put my name forward for it, this came from my boss and her boss!

The vote of confidence has left me absolutely buzzing.... Couldn't quite believe my eyes reading it, will probably apply but keep my feet well and truly on the ground with expectations..

 

Sometimes it takes others to see things in you before you see them yourself.

Don't 'probably' - do it!

 

This. Always apply!

Even if you don't get the role, it will get you "on the radar". Anecdotally I have recruited people I have interviewed for different roles and I have got roles based on interviewing for other jobs.

Everyone has imposter syndrome.

I had dinner with a member of the C-Suite of my old company (FTSE 250), a person I really respect with 100+ reports.

After a few beers he said "I have no idea how I got this job. I'm making this up as I go along, <snip> wont be long before they find out!".

Once you realize that everyone feels like that sometimes, its liberating....

 

Two really good points, I've always felt a bit of a fraud talking of promotions like my management chain would laugh in my face... really been pushing hard to work above and beyond this past year mostly to build my own confidence and it seems to be paying off. They think I'm ready and consequatially now I feel like I'm ready, if this isn't the promotion then it just means someone else was better suited to the role not that I wasn't suitable.

The bump in pay would be much appreciated in fast tracking a mortgage deposit!

To top it off my son spent his second day in nursery and spent the whole day their woohoo!

 

But not many know about 'The Peter Principle'
My boss is retiring in 4 or 5 years and I've been asked if i want his job, hell no, run away, money isn't everything.

 

Yeah, I was asked if I wanted to "move up" the ladder.... was laughing at them the right reaction? Hell yeah, it was!

 

If someone doesn't, they're the one to avoid like the plague.

I could've applied for a section head position at the company I got made redundant from, but seeing the stressed out, poor health mess that my old (extremely nice) section head was, it didn't even cross my mind to even bother.

 

Woop woop! I can say "bye" to my old not-free endo.

 

I've finally managed to match the multitude of random paint cans in the garage to most of the house now. Which was no easy feat considering a good deal of the house is painted in no fewer than four distinct shades of light grey.

 

Insert 50 Shades of Grey joke here.

 

These Win98-era desktops that @lancer778544 kindly dropped off the other day





I haven't fired up the Packard Bell yet, but the custom machine works perfectly. I've temporarily swapped out the GeForce 2 MX graphics card for a GeForce 3 Ti200 I had spare; the GeForce 2's heatsink had fallen off because the thermal glue has failed, and I don't have any spare to repair it with... The Packard Bell machine likely has a dodgy PSU, but that's an easy solve.

Had a real nostalgia trip setting up Windows 98!



Now I just need to finish installing the few games of mine from that era that managed to survive... I had a lot more than this, but most have been lost to time .

 

Oni was released on PC?!

 

Sure was!



TBH I had no idea it was also released on PS2!

 

@Byron C I may have stumbled across Hitman Codename 47 from 2000 in a box if you fancy it?

 

Quality gets, @Byron C !!