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11/05/2002 Archived Entry: "Today is the third day of the rest of your life"

Today, like all days, I write about today.

Rich grabbed his stuff today, he was staying with me two days a week for the last month while he was in transition. He's got a place; a room in the basement of the house with a couple dope-addled construction-worker types. I'm sure his blog will have all sorts of interesting and not terribly positive things to say about this arrangement. I do think I will miss having him here to chat with and jam on guitar with though.

Today I had a talk with the head of HR in the firm I work with, who I have to say is not my favourite person. She's about as tactful as a rubber projectile...she doesn't kill, but she can cause a lot of harm. This talk was about my position's title. I dislike what I am called in the firm: System Technician. To a geek's sensitive ears this sounds a little like an insult; I'm used to being called a System Administrator, and my job title to me sounds like all I am expected to do is put together computers on a factory line. She doesn't understand the difference, or why I would want it changed. She gets the titles from VALA, which makes it's money deciding names for titles and what salary range they should be paid. I'd love to see what the salary range for a System Technician is, and where I sit in that. More money can always make me care less about the names they call me. Hell, for $100k they can officially title me Pat Buchanan's towelboy for all I care. My boss agrees with me, so that's cool. I like my boss, he's a good guy and feels more like a partner than someone who directs my work. This is a good thing and makes me work harder. I've always found myself having loyalty to people and never to organizations/companies/firms and I don't understand people who can think of a group of people as an entity itself.

Also started a little bit of contract work tonight, which makes me happy. Hoping that that becomes a bigger thing and something that when I move off to another job (or my own small business, preferably), allows me to survive a little better. Certainly I won't be at this job forever...as it is right now the stress is painfully large. Might ease up a little once Jen is here. ;)