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[ravencallscrows]

Back at work. Not overly happy with it, but there are things which are necessary evils, and at present, Office is one of them.
I've figured it out- i don't really want to work, but would rather just be well-enough off that i could dabble in whatever happened to interest me at the time for as long as it did. ;-)
As if that's going to happen any time soon. Actually, I'd just be happy, at least for the foreseeable future, doing something where creativity was encouraged or at least valued, which is i think by definition outside of testing.

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But wait, there's more (part 2)

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

So, fresh from that, i felt pretty good about going into my meeting. I didn't expect my new boss to be happy about me wanting to leave, but i expected him to listen to why i wanted to go, and, since the primary languages we're working with are Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese and Hindi- none of which i speak/read/write (only a little Hebrew i haven't managed to foget from growing up), that he'd be reasonably able to replace me with someone who a) wanted to work in Office and b) had some ability in at least one of those languages.
Instead, i got told what he wanted and expected me to do, and it became pretty clear that not only wasn't i going to get permission now to go after the job i really want, but that it wasn't going to happen until next March at the earliest.
Accordingly, I've got pretty much a Hobson's choice- i can either sell out, and continue to suffer through Office in languages which in general look like toddler scribble; or i can find somewhere else to work- pretty disappointing, since there's an internal position i really want, have the qualifications for, and have the interest in pursuing. I'd feel better if i was given the opportunity to at least chase it down, and wouldn't have a problem staying through RTM if i didn't get the position i wanted but was at least allowed to have a go at it.