I started a new contract this week, up in Huddersfield, and so far it's going pretty well. My last couple of contracts before the Christmas break were both hands on operational stuff with no management responsibilities, and whilst it was a nice change after a couple of years in leadership roles to actually get my hands properly on the data again, I had started missing the more strategic challenges. The current role doesn't have any line management, but I've got to deliver a big project with lots of stakeholders, which basically means I get to do all the fun bits of management without the tedious HR stuff.
As well as giving me an interesting project, my client are also keen to engage me on a "deliver these things and we will pay you this lump sum" basis, rather than the usual "work for us for this period and we will pay you this amount per day". This is great, because it means that my usual method of "procrastinate, procrastinate, procrastinate, go 'Oh shit! A deadline!' and deliver an astonishing amount of work in a very short time so that the client is happy, but feel guilty for charging them for procrastination" now comes guilt free :) (And also, I suspect, a bit closer to procrastination free, because I won't feel the pressure to be sat at my desk and looking as though I'm working, and will be more inclined to just go and do something more useful or interesting if I'm clearly not getting work done.
It's a bit of a drag being away from home again, but I've already found myself a little flat about 5 minutes from where I'll be working, so unlike in Birmingham I won't be needing to drag my stuff to a new AirBnB each week. I'll pick up the keys tomorrow, and move stuff in gradually over the next couple of weeks. I'm still figuring out whether I'll need to get my spare piano sent up here, or if I can borrow practice rooms from the university. And I should be able to work from home quite a bit, which makes the distance easier. And I'm closer to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leonato, and my parents, and various fabulous people whom I don't see often enough, so as clouds go, this one is pretty silver-lined.
As well as giving me an interesting project, my client are also keen to engage me on a "deliver these things and we will pay you this lump sum" basis, rather than the usual "work for us for this period and we will pay you this amount per day". This is great, because it means that my usual method of "procrastinate, procrastinate, procrastinate, go 'Oh shit! A deadline!' and deliver an astonishing amount of work in a very short time so that the client is happy, but feel guilty for charging them for procrastination" now comes guilt free :) (And also, I suspect, a bit closer to procrastination free, because I won't feel the pressure to be sat at my desk and looking as though I'm working, and will be more inclined to just go and do something more useful or interesting if I'm clearly not getting work done.
It's a bit of a drag being away from home again, but I've already found myself a little flat about 5 minutes from where I'll be working, so unlike in Birmingham I won't be needing to drag my stuff to a new AirBnB each week. I'll pick up the keys tomorrow, and move stuff in gradually over the next couple of weeks. I'm still figuring out whether I'll need to get my spare piano sent up here, or if I can borrow practice rooms from the university. And I should be able to work from home quite a bit, which makes the distance easier. And I'm closer to
leonato, and my parents, and various fabulous people whom I don't see often enough, so as clouds go, this one is pretty silver-lined.
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Date: 2019-01-17 06:48 pm (UTC)From: