I could fall…
That full moon, February 22 will magnificently light your fifth house of romance and will open a new path to love. If you are single, you will have one of your best opportunities of 2016 to change your love life for the better. This full moon will be beautifully angled to Neptune, bringing on a magically inspirational episode.
So….as I might have mentioned, whenever my horoscope mentions love, I generally feel like it’s talking about work.
Work is bae.
Work has always been bae.
Work will forever be bae.
And that is okay (truly).
Mentioned that I’m a project lead for the first time, new role for me as before I’ve been a capability lead for my subject matter area…and I manage staff for that across different contracts and for small projects in that line of work. This time, I have a high priority and expensive project and people are relying on me to pull through with a methodology I introduced as a hail mary before deciding whether or not I’d quit last December.
So they let me implement my suggested methodology and gave me full control over how I wanted to do it, staff it, and run it against a hail mary project of their own. The customer hates the people we work for and they were giving us one last chance to get it right. (We support a software division in a larger organization…one that doesn’t have the best rep based on past work).
So today was our first demo of the first set of functionality.
I have been SO STRESSED about it…it’s a “put your money where your mouth is” moment. You think you know better KaNisa? Put up or shut up!
I’ve put up!
And WE WERE AWESOME!
I’m so proud of everyone! We totally pulled through!
It truly was enchanting!
It’s hilarious too, our customer that works with us all the time is happy with us…no issues at all, and it’s going SO well, her leadership (who basically hates the people my company supports) doesn’t really believe her when she says it’s going this well. They came to our demo ready to take us to the mat and didn’t have any complaints!
It’s a new day people! EYE-m running the show!
And truly I had the same complaints and was THIS close to quitting over them myself.
I’m very happy! Of course everything wasn’t perfect, but nothing ever is. The team really coalesced, our customer representative too! We had a retrospective today to talk about what went well and what we want to improve, and her only complaint is that we didn’t get to have our joint lunch until the end!
How cool is it that your client wants to spend time with the team like that?!
So happy! See! Let people do the jobs they were hired to do! Let us use modern technology! Let us work using modern software development practices! Stop dictating to people, they’re adults! Listen to feedback! TALK TO REAL USERS INSTEAD OF ASSUMING WHAT THEY WANT! LET THE DEVELOPERS ASK THEIR OWN QUESTIONS!
IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I love us enough for all of us!
And I am SO PROUD!
9 more weeks!
In other news…
I have not reneged on my pillars, but I have adjusted the levels of engagement :
Old Requirement : Pillars of Peen Potential Trials must be completed with a score of 70% or better for each pillar before being considered for any level of engagement.
New Requirement : Level 1 engagement is decided based on a minimal score of 60% overall, irrespective of pillar type.
Layman’s terms : If you’re generally cool, we can hang out.
Old Requirement : Level 1 engagement includes relations and only relations. Those who start here, cannot graduate to Level 2.
New Requirement : Level 1 engagement includes relations related activities but no relations. The intent for this level is friendship with small benefits, and still limited to Level 1.
This is generally a friend you “kick it” with. You can hang out, sometimes do things, but it’s mostly friendly. They’re the person you’re “cool” with. Or that’s “your girl” or “your dude.” You enjoy spending time together and it’s comfortable, easy going. Fun times. (Pillar 5 in the 0-49% range) and or a Level 1-er
Then there are people that physically affect you. This feeling is an urgent feeling you can’t control, the “if I engage this person, they’re going to hugely impact my life”…and you unconsciously know it. This is the person you either want to for real physically merge with (not even in a relations way, but in a spiritual way) or completely ignore them because you know being involved with them will be a big undertaking for you. This is someone who makes you feel uneasy or insecure because you know they can really see you. You can’t hide from them. And yes this is someone who activates really primal urges in you (because evolutionary biology says mating with them would yield strong kids because of their immunity profile). Thing about this person though? You can feel all this about the person by just being near them even if you know nothing about them at all.
That is the real essence of pillar 5 in the 70%+ range. It’s not really relations based, it’s a soul challenge. That person is in your life to teach you something real about yourself. It could be a shorter term thing (Level 2) or longer term commitment (Level 3) but it’s a serious undertaking for your character…and that interaction is taken very seriously.
I am lightening up to allow more casual connections. Still would kinda rather not on the relations stuff in those (to be really real…if you haven’t done that in a while, it’s kind of painful…and I’d rather go through all that with a Level 2 person….) but auxiliary activities are cool with intelligent people who are open minded and don’t mind not doing all the things. I was very black and white with that before, all or nothing, now I’m all or some things.
For now, just trying to find out if there’s a block on Level 2’s because that place in my heart has been taken by 8 grown men and 1 woman with an average age of 38 and codebase with an international reach because… *heart eye emoji*
I am in love with my career right now…
