The best of times

I've decided that I need lazier weekends spent at home. Haley and I have been awfully busy the last few weeks. She with her schoolwork and with work work. The crazy weather we've had in New York City hasn't contributed anything meaningful to my precious downtime, either.

Seriously.

What the fuck is up with thunder and lightning storms every week. After 30 years of living in NYC, I feel like we are experiencing late April/early May weather. Doesn't make much sense.

It's audit season again at my job and accordingly, I can expect to be working later than usual and harder than normal. I don't like these audits. They don't seem to serve a practical purpose other than to enforce a hastily passed reform law, aka SOX. The whole SOX act created a lot of jobs and a bureaucratic beast. Thank you, Ken Lay. Thank you so very much for all of this.

I'm at a stage where I have begun re-evaluating my goals and career wants. I've been at my company for almost 3 years. I began as a temporary receptionist----->full time receptionist----> human resources coordinator. There is little doubt in my mind that I could achieve a higher position in my company, especially within HR. Recruiting doesn't particularly appeal to me anymore. It sounded like an awesome position a year ago, an opportunity to hone one's people skills. After studying the logistics of recruiting, I've concluded that it's really a sales position with bottom lines, quotas and other things I do not enjoy. HR generalist is an interesting discipline. You need to be very knowledgeable of labor and INS laws. From what I've gathered, the generalist is also a gatekeeper of personnel data, so there's a huge trend tracking component to the job. You also have to fire people. I would not enjoy that.

What do I like? I enjoy communicating with people. To do so in an academic setting would be ideal. One of my friends starting tutoring at a community college in Brooklyn about 2 years ago. He is now an adjunct lecturer. It's worth exploring this a bit more, but my goals are more in site than they have ever been.

Now back to the regular scheduled program, Ryan sits on his ass and does nothing.