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So- how Canadian are you? I got 18 of 20, which means i get a higher percentage on that than on the Skilled Worker application through Citizenship and Immigration Canada (on which i score at least a 70). Depending on how the political climate shakes out here in the next few years, going back north might really be something to consider....

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I have finally succeeded in making myself too indispensable at work. This is a bad thing.

Today, we had a demonstration of the work we're doing on our project- this is a fairly typical Friday thing. This one, though, was attended by the president of the company and most of the executive committee. Seems that our project has become the battleground for a power struggle between three of the executive vice presidents.

The demo itself went well, but ran over its scheduled time as the mucky-mucks argued details of what each of them think should be done— and, invariably, one's ideas are in direct opposition to another's on most of the important factors.

I skipped out after an hour and a half of it. Later, our project manager came to me to tell me that subsequent demos will be in two parts- one with the development team, the primary business owner and those she elects to bring, and a second one with the execs. Everyone on the core dev team gets excused after the first part... except for me and the PM. I get the dubious honour of getting to stay and contribute to the second part as well, at the specific request of our primary business owner and the president of the company.

I guess this means that either i've learned to speak business well enough to communicate effectively with the executives with an understanding of the big picture; or i'm a loose cannon who knows how to tone things down just enough to not go off on the higher-ups. Either way, it's showing up on the radar in a good way, but not necessarily the duty i'd have wanted to draw.