McSwede wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:46 pm
It is to be fair. The only downsides this far are the stresses of more responsibility mixed with a little difficulty sleeping, or staying asleep. Being an old fart I do tend to wake up during the night, end up with work thoughts popping in my head and not being able to sleep again.
That's me as well. It's so fucking annoying.
I usually go to the spare room and listen to an astrophysics YT channel, I find the subject odly comforting and relaxing. I think my brain can't handle it so it makes me sleepy.
It's really shit! Last night though I slept from 10.30pm through to 7.30am which was bloody glorious!
I usually go to the spare room and listen to an astrophysics YT channel, I find the subject odly comforting and relaxing. I think my brain can't handle it so it makes me sleepy.
It's really shit! Last night though I slept from 10.30pm through to 7.30am which was bloody glorious!
Nice, is that from the CBD?
Yes. Even from night 1 I slept really well. Wife has same sleep issues (plus my snoring) and they've really helped her too. I've been very impressed so far. I bought Goodrays CBD gummies on Amazon.
I'd have to read up on them because there is a possibility of drug and alcohol testing at work so I don't know how it would show up or how long it stays in the system.
ZedLeg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:09 am
TBH, a workplace drug testing would be enough for me to get to fuck
Construction, so you don't really want people in control of heavy machinery under the influence! Although I suspect they frequently are...
Theoretically they do random testing, but I haven't seen it much in this company, it's more if there's an incident on site and I happened to be there (I'm probably only on a site once a week, if that). Any incident they generally test everyone in the vicinity.
So, looks like my days of being a man of leisure are coming to an end. I've accepted a job offer for a role that I am quite excited about, just waiting for the screening stuff to complete.
Role is significantly more senior than before, pay is a lot better, and has progression baked into it. It is a new role they've created to manage succession for the director of security (who will be my manager), so when they move on, I'm potentially next in line. It also ticks many of my other "boxes", so I really can't complain.
The funny thing I never applied for it. A friend who works there wrote me a very nice recommendation and suggested to the security senior leadership that they should talk to me about how I could fit into the org, and after an informal chat with one, a formal interview with another (in which we discussed Art Deco architecture among other things), and another semi-formal chat with someone else entirely, they offered me the role.
The biggest drawback to this approach is that their recruitment platform can't figure out how to handle things because there is no application to join to my name. So all requests to fill things in or update stuff lead to a conversation with their on-boarding team who has to manually do stuff.
I've spent the time in-between with the kids, volunteering at the school, pottering about, and watching a fair amount of TV. It has been rather marvellous. Only regret is that because of when in the year it happened (half-term, bank holidays, etc.), my wife and I didn't get to spend enough Mondays (her non-working day) going for long walks and nice lunches. Still, should be able to manage at least one or two more.
I already basically was having taken over from the old head of IT, but we forgot to update the org chart, and our ISMS/ISO stuff audit references the role repeatedly
No pay bump or owt (I already got that), just need to change my email sig and, er, do this ISO27001 external audit end of this week*
*been prepping for it for weeks, it should be fine. Just did Cyberessentials last week, so other than performance anxiety I'm sure it'll be reet.
Congrats Beany! Amazing to see you doing well in a good role - long may it continue!
Pleased to say that some of my goals for 2023 have happened very quickly - I already doubled my social media following this year by adding nearly 100k followers across all platforms, my value as a creator has rocketed as a result. Next focus is to land more projects, so that I can realise that value.
A series of server migrations (about a third of our fleet, never done before) caused by a supplier fuck up
while also renewing Cyberessentials with a near fresh infrastructure team (so limited embedded knowledge)
also ISO27001 audit prep/internal audit being doled out to us managers rather than the two main directors handling it all,
and prepping for CyberEssentialsPlus (much stricter and harder to implement if you don't have AD-esque infrastructure, which we don't) all at the same time
....is less excellent, but I keep telling myself that it's only this year, it's only this year, it's only this year.... next year I intend to have my team do fun stuff - properly investigating making our services more modular, etc.
Baptism of fire and all that. I keep getting told that I'm doing an excellent job though so I guess that's something, who knew, Beany knows IT stuff.
Nice, is that from the CBD?
