Oooh dat makes me mad

And yet another end of month passes where I don’t get paid. B@stards! 2 outstanding invoices from the 11th of Feb and 11th March now. Better get a double whammy at the end of April, otherwise I’ll be opening a can of whoop-ass on them, let me tell you.

Another interview this morning. And while the company would probably be a good, and interesting, company to work for, the job is pretty much what I’ve been doing up till now. Enjoyable for the first few months, then excruciatingly boring after that. I doubt I’ll get an offer (there’s another 2 on the shortlist apparently) as even I felt I was coming across with as much enthusiasm as a horse being dragged off to the glue factory.

Then the same recruitment agent as from the last JP Morgan fiasco was on the phone again, with another JP Morgan position they want me in for an interview for. Now, to be fair this role looks good. A wide variety of tasks for a large number of clients in a test environment rather than a live one. This would mean no out of hours work and a reasonable amount of travel meeting folk and getting requirements etc.

But the decision has been made. I am not enjoying this at all. Not one little bit. I used to love computers, and love working with them. But since they became a career rather than a hobby the passion has vanished. And, especially over the last month, any enjoyment I once extracted from them has completely gone. Now doing any computer work is a major chore, and most of the time at work is dreaming of doing something (anything) else.

So, I called back the recruiter, and said I was taking 3 or 4 months off when this contract finished at the end of April (about 176 working hours to go - not that I’m counting). I plan to at least have a go at some non-IT stuff and see what happens. If it all goes horribly wrong I’ll start looking for IT jobs again in the autumn.

Got a couple of ideas (possibly a bit far-fetched) and a rough idea of what I could live off (possibly a bit low) but hey, gotta give it a go.

Now all I’ve got to do it stick out another month here. And that won’t be a walk in the park….