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Showing posts with label Escape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Escape. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Symbiotic Relationship

The look of love is not there - I do not wish to continue in my present position for one day longer than necessary. 


Yes, I am working on consumer cases that should be completed no later than 15 September. I like (most of) the consumers, but have had it with most of the personnel of the (unnamed) state agency that provides the funding for me.


It seems to be a symbiotic relationship - I am not working well with them and they seem to have it in for me. There is an audit and site review on Tuesday, and I expect (unnamed) to have big issues with my methodology of keeping electronic records - which is B.S., but hey - the (unnamed) is paying the bills, and their opinion will matter most, factual or otherwise.


Yet, this is not a complaint - the events are compelling me to consider all my options, and perhaps I have more than fewer options than I think. as to income. My organization requests four weeks notice for leaving the position, and that is fair. Do I have the courage to make the switch? Of course, my position could be axed, too, which is the simplest solution for me... 


The downside is that I probably would be cutting most ties to the non-profit I work for. I have a past with them, being a board member as Secretary/Treasurer (1998-2001) and President (2001-2004). I like the employees, and hate to lose that. 


So the confusion is thus: Do I give up on the past by choice (and move ahead into an uncertain future), or wait for the likely and have the position defunded (while also moving out into that uncertain future). Courage is easy to grasp as a concept, but harder to implement...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Planning my escape - how?

I work for a non-profit who in turn works as a contractor for a State of CT (unnamed) state agency on an (unnamed – yet) project. I would prefer not to name names - although some people I am in contact with know exactly of whom I am referring.
What is annoying is how government as a rule adds zero value to any process. Where time is money, where speed with accuracy results in better outcomes.

Not that this unnamed agency seems to be concerned with outcomes in general are not the main goal – maintaining the flawed process instead. If anyone has been involved in the for-profit world (couldn't be anyone in the state I've dealt with), speed and outcomes matter. I don’t believe anyone involved in the project on the state level ever has…Even working at a non-profit, I have to work with these state people...And I am not knocking those that work for the state per-se, I am just not seeing true efficiency

I need to getaway, to what and how I can’t say. Yeah, at my age (55) and in a wheelchair, conventional employment is out. No whining, the decision makers will be nice about it during the interview, but…I have a mind and a modicum of intelligence. 


How do I plot my getaway???