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12th January 2023 - Work Place Hope ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recently, work has felt fairly meh and sloggy. I had a few months of fairly mundane, day dragging, irritating busy work while waiting for big decisions to be made. The past few days has been spent doing quarterly planning and it looked like another 3 months of meh and sloggy waiting around work. Then I got a call.. I am moving on to another programme and it is a great one which seems reasonably well resourced. The change in mood and what not is crazy. I have been looking forward to being in the office again. It surprised me how much my mood changed from just changing project. The last one was a good programme but sufferred from Agile meaning we beat ourselves up over not meeting the expectations while having no where near enough people. It does help that the new programme is nuclear controls based and involves lots of blank page engineering efforts. I do love being asked to produce a thing which does x, y and z. Particularly when there are no pre-conceptions which turn it into a 'change one I did earlier' affair. It makes me buzz and want to fight the corporate nonsense to make it all come about. With all the excitement, I need to remember that there will be many a painful point and it will become drudgery. The game is to ensure the hope can return once again and make things lively. Having a new team should help with that and hopefully throw enough new challenges to keep life interesting. I am once again on a project which will not enter service for a number of years. After 12 or so years, I am still waiting for something I have worked on to enter service. The joys of aerospace and nuclear programes I suppose.