february 6, 2009
as it turns out, i guess i was doing something right at work because i was promoted a few weeks ago. today marked the first week in my promoted position, and i must say it feels very good to be here. i read somewhere that successful people tend say they’ve been lucky, and the unsuccessful tend to blame bad luck. not to say that i’m successful or anything like that but i sure feel lucky right now, especially in these current economic conditions.
with the new position being in palo alto, it would be a lie to say waking up at 6am hasn’t been a struggle… especially with my cold lingering around, strongly refusing to go away (my snot looks like corn chowder btw). even on wednesdays when i work out of the sf office, i seem to find myself waking up at 6am, an hour before my alarm setting. what’s weird is today, i woke up at 5am, an hour before my 6am alarm setting. how do you explain that?! o____O that’s right, you can’t.
anyway… my original intention was to study on the 45 minute ride down the caltrain, but i’ve been sleeping for… say… 40 minutes for most of the time. not only am i not sleeping, i almost missed my stop once. my train down is the bullet train making limited stops; the train i’d have take back north would not be a bullet train stopping at every stop. it’s inevitable, it’s going to happen sooner or later. i’ve already warned my bosses here that i will call from moutain view (the next stop on the bullet caltrain) one day, and that i will be very late this day.
the quality of assignments and the trust bestowed by the managers and partners (ill-advised or not) has been overwhelmingly rewarding here. i also get an opportunity to look at each client more in depth because the office is smaller relative to the sf office, and that has given learning opportunities hard to come by in sf. i think it’s also fair to say that i get a little more attention when it comes to training because i’m the sole administrator here, as opposed to a team of administrators in sf.
the upcoming cfp exam is still my main priority… and as it nears (t-42 days, yikes!) i’m beginning to feel a sense of urgency and pure panic. with the rewards that come with passing, and the dismal and depressing penalties of failing… i really hope i pass… as obama used to say, ‘yes we (i) can’. he has since turned to other words like… “disaster“, “state of emergency“, “sobering“. hopefully i can stay away from such words for like… ever.
(all my bags are packed, i’m ready to go~! i also look, like i just got let go~! :0)
(from the busy streets of downtown sf to…)
(…the quiet palo alto office)
