En Fuego
Today, I'm on fire at work. I did not get a good night's sleep, but I bailed on trying to force it and went to work early. Work has been hectic due to a knee jerk reaction that launched a project and the leadership has set sail. For some reason, possibly due to conditioning, I'm on fire today... in a good way.
I spent the morning rewriting an app that someone else should have done, but I didn't have time to wait on them. I'm at the bottom rung on the positional ladder here, but somehow found myself coordinating the project today. Nature abhores a vaccuum and I abhore a vaccuum of leadership. I think that the Pythagorean Theorum states that Nature also abhores me if the previous is true. I dunno.
Anyway, I think my entire success in the professional world has stemmed from seeing a waste of skin in a leadership postion and then telling them to get out of the way so I can do it. I started out as an intern, then went to graphics punk, then team leader, then project manager, then division manager, then down to product manager. The move from division to product actually helped me out... since now I don't have to appear before anyone and explain where Karl Rove's e-mail went. Eventually I hit a road block in the compentency path and left. Once the decision was made to make stupid status quo, I quit.
But anyway... today has been a blur but for the first time in a while I actually feel like I got something accomplished. Initial presentation today was a home run, I'll be probably coding through the night on a revision and then a CEO presentation tomorrow. We'll (against my wishes) launch Friday and then I can go downtown for Happy Hour.
Also... career advice... if a VP is late for a meeting, it's not the best idea to say, "Thanks for joining us, we were just about to send out a search party for you." I got a get out of jail free card today though... I finished all of the stuff they needed done, plus did some things they hadn't thought of to make it better. I probably could have done the presentation in my underwear and gotten away with it. I did do a few shadow puppets with the projector while we waited for all of the attendees to show up. My best one is the standard bird thing flapping away... but to have a open coffee creamer palmed (sleight of hand skill finally pays off in the corporate world) that can be used to make the bird poo.
I'm so getting fired.