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Aug. 2nd, 2006 @ 04:20 pm 
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Ah, the joy of a stealth update after a gap of about, uh...
Hrm.
About 10 months. Ok...
Well, at least a few things are still unchanged - still in the same job, although I'm starting to try to work out now what I'm going to move on to. Partly because this doesn't really feel like the kind of job to stay in for more than 2-3 years (in a 4-person company there isn't really much opportunity for vertical movement) and partly because a decent pay increase would be very helpful indeed. Not that a pay increase ever isn't welcome of course, but it would be specifically helpful at the moment.
As for other things... The writing has picked up again after a bit of a slow start to the year. The main driver for that was a friend of mine winning Pro Circuit San Francisco with a deck that I designed (although the tweaking and testing was a group effort.)
After that win, MetaGame.com published a two-part article (here and here that I'd written on the design process behind the deck, and apparently impressed them, as a couple of weeks later the editor (Toby Wachter) e-mailed to ask if I'd be interested in writing a Deck Clinic series, taking reader-submitted decks with problems and fixing them up, trying to give an insight into the design process and the steps you can take to improve a deck once you have the initial concept. It's good practice, and also proving to be quite interesting to write, which certainly should help sticking to deadline. Getting the chance to do event coverage for the M:tG English Nationals along with Tim Willoughby was also fun, and, again, more useful experience.
Going on holiday soon, and while it should be less interesting than last year's safari awesomeness (not exactly surprising) it should be a nice break, and a chance to recharge the Vitamin D batteries.
Overall things are pretty much as expected, which might be part of the problem - I feel stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment. Work is part of it, along with the time it's taking to work off the last bits of student overdraft - the writing should hopefully help with that, as the articles will pay cash money (even if it is dollar cash money) when the cheques arrive.
All I need to do now is find an interesting new job that pays more! Hopefully also a larger company - although the people here are great, the tiny size of the office means there isn't really scope for any kind of work-based socialising, so I'm not really meeting people.Current Mood:  pensive Today's Tune: The Automatic - Monster |
It's allllivvvvve :)
Welcome back - congrats on the writing for money type thang.
Try Prospectus for jobs...if you're interested in charities/colleges etc type of admin-y work - they got me mine - which may be boring but pays pretty good.
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