What a year, one that I do not want to have over. This must have been the busiest year in my 31 year working live. I have never work this hard with the accompanied stress levels that goes with it.
The year started off for me starting a job at Old Mutual for the first 6 months of the year. It was one of the most interesting projects that I have managed with a great team of developers. However for some reason Old Mutual decided to treat us contractors not to well and it was time to move on.
I returned to a company that I worked for in the early 2000’s called Fundamo. Originally I was employed to become the Software Development Manager for one of the Business Units. For some reason this position was then canned and I was offered the Project Manager position which I accepted. I still do not agree with the decision that the Dev Manager position was canned. It is leaving a gap in the governance around Software Development and the proper management of the Development processes.
I am Project Manager for 5 countries in the Southern part of Africa. During Novemeber I spend a couple of days in Uganda to visit and meet the people in Uganda. I must stay that the past 6 months was very hard and is starting to take it’s toll on me. I am extremely tired and the frustration levels are very high. Not sure how long I will be able to keep this up.
On the family side. My daughter completed her second year at varsity and moves on to 3rd year next year. My son has one little subject to complete at the beginning of 2012 and if everything goes according to plan, he will obtain his Chemical Engineering degree in March 2012. Now the struggle starts for him to find a job, so if anybody knows of Chemical Engineering jobs, then please let me know.
To each and everybody, may you have a joyeous holiday season and a great 2012. For me, 2012 can only be better than 2011.