Chairman of the Bored

It's getting close to my last day at my current job and it really cannot come soon enough for me.

In my 18 months here I've learned a system inside out and I'm effectively the first stop - for staff, contractors and clients alike - for support. If I don't know it, chances are it's a technical issue. I've written manuals which people don't read, I've come up with innovative ways of getting concepts through to people, I've run training sessions, done presentations....

But I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. There are opportunities ahead of me which allow me to learn, to grow and to move forward. There are things ahead of me that I am genuinely excited about and right now, I feel like a bird that wants to fly free whose wings are totally clipped.

Because I like to learn, I like to constantly find things out and apply new knowledge. Repeatedly giving the same knowledge to the same people just isn't my thing. It's boring, it's annoying and it leaves me with absolutely zero job satisfaction.

Given how excited I am by the proposal I'm writing, and how desperately I want to sink my teeth into that project, and how utterly, totally, completely bored I am here... clearly I have made the right decision in leaving.

It's possible I am being stupid and selfish being unhappy at my job and wanting to move on but you know what? I am young, I have no dependents and (fairly) low debt. I have the cash to support myself for a while and at least 3 job prospects in the works.

I'd rather be happy than secure and bored.