Today's been a career day...

...futures made and fortunes lost.

One of the joys about working at the biggest of ceruleans is that first quarter is re-org time. The first week back from Christmas break was filled with news of new directors, moved VP's, resignations, promotions, etc. The team I work with moved down the totem when a new VP inserted herself between the directors and the "main" VP (that's what she said). No big deal. Things like that don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Less than a thousand people were affected.

Luckily no re-org for my department.

Maybe.

I found out yesterday that the team I work with is "moving." They're not physically going anywhere but they/we are moving to a new reporting structure with a new mission. What's this new mission? What was the old mission? What the hell does Zeke actually do? I don't know where I am. There's blood on my knife. I think I killed someone. :-) very inside joke of me.

Our team focused on getting things to work for the first time. We create intellectual capital (a fancy way of saying documents) that fellow works and/or customers use to get their own setup running.

This new org focuses on a word that isn't even a word: consumability. <-- Not a real word! HA!

Instead of focusing on depth we're moving to breadth. Cross-product interaction. Integration. e-buisness. SOA. SaS.

This may or may not affect me. The VP who's leading this charge and taking the team under his wing will visit the lab tomorrow (Jan. 31). I don't know how or if this will affect me but I'll know more tomorrow morning. Maybe I'm leaving my lofty position in the department of product architects. My manager kept me in the dark so far so who knows.

More at 11 (and after some Office Space).

German Alt

That is all.

Nothing's Going to Touch You in This Golden Year

Sorry Bowie, I couldn't resist.

This year I celebrate my golden birthday. It begins in precisely T-15 days.

What's my plan for the year ahead?

• A trip, in April, to Las Vegas for work.
• A second trip, in May, to Vegas for work.
• Another trip to the BWCA this summer
• A trip to Germany sometime this coming fall/winter. Either Oktoberfest in September or the Christkindlesmarkt in November/December.
• More Camping!
• Exercising more
• Getting Outside
• Watch less TV (the WGA strike makes this easy)
  
• Not working so much
• Reading more
• De-clutter
• Play with Tyson more than I have over the past year
• Not worry
• Save $$
• Enjoy life!