Quiet life

I've been leading it lately. Not to say I'm not busy, I'm very busy with work and yoga four times a week - but in addition to that there's not much going on.

Work-wise I'm enjoying peace and quiet in our new digs at the second floor where it's just the QA department - I think everyone has been pleasantly surprised on how the new arrangement is working out. Not that we've put it to proper test yet, but whatever it will be it won't affect me as I don't deal with developers that much anymore. I'm actually really pleased with where my professional career is going, as I think automated testing gives me best of both worlds: I get to test which is my favourite, but I also get to write some code which is something I still quite enjoy.

I had also my quarterly review this week, in which I got a lot of praise which was nice. I'm somewhat perplexed what my manager wants out of me next - she kept saying that I need to take more responsibility which I didn't really get... I am already responsible for building, maintaining and running certain scripts which is as much responsibility as I'm going to get in the automation team. When I enquired after what she really meant she said that she wanted me "to do more work" which didn't sound that appealing - I do my eight hours, and neither do I have any desire to do more nor even get a more managerial position, but it's not technically even possible in the small automation team. So we'll see what'll come out of it... I'm quite happy where I am at the moment.

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