Fix your job

[Serenity]

Mmmmmm!.....Beeeeeeer!

[BigJon@Work]

Hey, beer is good for your hair when you shampoo, bring a bottle. And congrats!

[piqaboo]

Congrats on the job, good luck with it.
Good luck also with the run.
15K = 9.5 miles which you say you already can manage, so no worries, mate!

[barfle]

Congratulations on the job, doc!

Too bad about the beer, though. To be honest, there are beers that I won't touch again, but they are in a small minority.

[Shapley]

Too bad about the beer, though. To be honest, there are beers that I won't touch again, but they are in a small minority.

I agree that there are some beers that are better poured on you than in you. Or, better yet, poured back into the horse...

[Trumpetmaster]

Well... the guy I report to resigned this week. His last day is a week from this Friday.
I knew it was coming .....

been getting more work....
new consultants to train.........

blah blah blah blah.............................

I fully expect to be given his managment responsiblities....
as I'm the only FTE in our Project Management group... the rest are consultants.....

[Shapley]

I fully expect to be given his managment responsiblities....

They are always happy to give additional responsibilities....


.... but they're usually reluctant give the pay that goes with them...

Good Luck!

[piqaboo]

TM, I hope it comes with a promotion, cool title, and a bump in $$.

[Serenity]

If you act as though you are in charge then people will start treating you as if you are in charge.

[Trumpetmaster]

Thanks everyone...

I hope there is a promotion in the NEAR future...

If not,,,,,, well... I'll leave it at that...................................

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Crossing my fingers for you. Likewise toes, eyes...

[monkeymd2b]

Well, I'm still alive after my 15K yesterday...My legs are killing me but I also have rib pain which sometimes seems more painful than the legs. The hills were horrible. I knew that I would be running up a hill because the route includes the road that leads up to OHSU but I was misled by the sign that said "you're over the hill." I guess it was just telling me I'm old because after that sign, it was downhill and so I'm smiling inside thinking, "thank god!" and then I look up ahead and see...another damn hill!!! So I went up and over that one and again, thinking I'm heading down and yet another freakin hill. After awhile I kept thinking, what's the point of hoping, there's probably another hill after this one. Eventually it actually was all downhill so I picked up speed and managed to finish in 90 min and 5 seconds which isn't bad considering I only started running seriously at the end of january. Then I saw my standings..744th out of 1221 women, and 175th out of 265 30-34 yr old women. At least I wasn't dead last...or dead. The interesting thing is that in the 10 min between when my friend finished and I finished, 300 other women finished! That seems like a crazy amount of women...then again, there were quite a number of people passing me along the way. And the beer thing was not true. I did get free beer but nothing poured over me.

I don't think I'll be running anything longer soon.

[dai bread]

I hope you've got good shoes. Running or jogging or even walking on concrete & tarseal is bad for your leg joints. I expect you know this, being a medical person, but I'm passing on some personal experience as well as the advice of an athletics coach I knew.

I walked 20 minutes each way to work & back, 5 days a week for 3 years, in ordinary street shoes. At the end of that time, I could barely hobble 100 metres to the bus stop at the end of my street, and I felt a proper idiot getting the bus for a 5-minute ride. 6 months rest fixed the problem for day-to-day purposes, but anything over half an hour's walking leaves me sore.

Take care.

[barfle]

I once thought running would be a good way to get and stay in shape. Although I did get better at running, what it really did was exhaust me.

I quit when one of my legs went numb and didn't bother starting again a month later when the feeling returned.

[Schmeelkie]

I contain my running to running after Pumpkin. Bella hasn't picked up much speed yet - but with spring on the horizon and wide open spaces (yard as opposed to inside house) available, I'm sure she'll pick up quickly! I always detested running in school (I wonder sometimes if I might have some low-level exercise induced asthma as I was always out of breath even when in gym class and you ran 2-3 times/week - never got better). Much rather walk. And I always wear sensible shoes (which reminds me, I need to replace my sneakers/walking shoes this spring).

Back to topic - did my evaluation with my boss yesterday - went very well!! Talked a bit about my long-term goal of becoming an independent researcher (not independent of the university, just doing my own studies) and he suggests something he was interested that goes along with my interests that we could pilot in the fall...and discussed putting me on a grant in a fellowship position (which would allow for things like conference and workshop attendance and let me focus on my own goals) in the relatively near future. It's so nice to feel supported in your job! Course, if this goes well, then I'll be depending on myself for grant money (thus salary), not just staying in someone else's good graces (and their ability to continue having grants funded). it's not the safest of fields, but I feel a bit more comfortable now that husband's got tenure - at least he doesn't have to worry about losing his job.

[piqaboo]

Congrats to you, Monkey! That's wunnerful! (comparing your placement - you are SUCH a doctor!)

I mostly hated running. I purely loved the stamina it gave me.
Even after a run, I had more endurance than most of the people I knew.
Now, I'm just soggy and my hip joints threaten me. Sigh.

[jamiebk]

I truly miss running. 20 years ago I did a lot of it and got to a point where literally, I felt like I could run forever (OK...not quite like Forrest Gump). At any rate, I did finish a marathon (3:19 and some change...I finished right behind the third woman to finish). I competed in a bunch of local races too on weekends. Unfortunately, plantar fasciitis got me and it seemed like I would never recover. I had to stop running completely and that was unbelievably hard. Once I did, it was incredibly hard to start back up. I moved on to other things... cycling, skiing, backpacking/hiking, but none of them ever gave me the "high" of running.

Now, middle age has fully caught up with me and I look like most other "chubby hubbies" out there. I still stay pretty active, but really long for those days of speed and endurance. Keep up the great work Doc. You won't regret it. And congrats on the 15K finish.

[Serenity]

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[piqaboo]

Things have gotten very hectic at work. The work is very fun, absorbing and interesting. Unfortunately, work also got strange in an unpleasant way. It seems to be resolving and it also seems like it will be a very slow process. In the not so long term, I suspect I shall have to change jobs, hopefully within the dept. But for now, I'm facing a hard deadline. On 10Oct, I get on a plane for Germany. On the 13th-22, I train most of our sites in using our new data system. The hectic part is that I'm the one setting up the system and also the one writing the training. Fortunately I've been able to draft help with both activities, because its a 4 person job with 2.5 of us doing it.
I'll update you on the unpleasantness sometime, but not now.
Gotta run.
Miss you guys!

[Shapley]

Things have gotten very hectic at work. The work is very fun, absorbing and interesting. Unfortunately, work also got strange in an unpleasant way. It seems to be resolving and it also seems like it will be a very slow process. In the not so long term, I suspect I shall have to change jobs, hopefully within the dept. But for now, I'm facing a hard deadline. On 10Oct, I get on a plane for Germany. On the 13th-22, I train most of our sites in using our new data system. The hectic part is that I'm the one setting up the system and also the one writing the training. Fortunately I've been able to draft help with both activities, because its a 4 person job with 2.5 of us doing it.
I'll update you on the unpleasantness sometime, but not now.
Gotta run.
Miss you guys!

Good luck! Have a safe trip!