Re-entry

I should have known that coming back to work after working at home for a month was going to be difficult. It was difficult even after vacation. Extremely difficult after my medical leave. But what I didn't really know was that I was going to hate it quite so much. I don't like the office environment. At all.

Don't get me wrong of course, I am grateful for my job.

That being said, I am not happy with it. I feel like a broken record since I have been over this before.

But it's on my mind because I just had my annual review. Which went fine. I get the same comments I get every year which amount to keep up the good work and oh by the way you should find some time to write some articles. Uh, yeah right.

See they have this plan for me that I am going to make partner at some point and slowly over the years that has become the exact opposite of my plan.

My plan, as you know, is to move away from here but keep this job. Telecommute, cut my hours back and basically hang out until a decision has to be made about whether I will make partner. At which point I will hopefully keep my job and be whatever you call the people who don't make partner but want to stick around. I would be perfectly happy if I never made a penny more than I do right now. If I could just freeze myself in this job right now, except in another location, that would be perfect.

I can assure you that I probably won't be able to make partner if I continue to refuse to write articles, which is what I fully intend to do. For the third year in a row I have been told to write articles and I am just going to not do it. I do have a half written article (that I am not going to finish) and I did write a short form of an article which we call an alert and it never got published. So why bother. I am supposed to be writing articles in my spare time. What spare time? It takes all the time that I have to try to bill 2000 hours.

My spare time these days is being taken up by trying to figure out where to move too. Vermont where my brother and sister-in-law live (which I guess I feel a little weird following them out there), or back to Ann Arbor where I'm from. Hmm. I can't decide.