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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2128363" data-attributes="member: 945">I have loved what I do in the past, but not so much right now.When I worked for Wal-Mart (the home office), I was a programmer. And I was the most technically brilliant member of my team (my peer evals even said so!) I went into work in the morning, pulled up whatever program I was working on at the time, and coded until I was done in the evening. I was single then, so "when I was done" might be an hour or more after close of business. I wrote so much code there it was unbelievable. Shell scripts, C code, Visual Basic, 3-page sql commands. You name it. I'm sure they're still using most of it.But it wore me out. I burned out on that, and not because I didn't enjoy it, but because my management refused to acknowledge the contributions I had made. They didn't want to promote me, or move me to new challenges. Maybe I did my job too well??  The culture there is really obnoxious, and it's not an environment I'd want to work in with a wife and child. It's not family-friendly at all.  But I loved the learning, and the technology, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.I left, and while I've had good times and bad, I'm completely and utterly bored where I am currently. I haven't done more than about an hours worth of work in a day since January. So, I've worked on products for HARP, worked on modules, posted gobs on ENworld, worked on my master's degree.  So yea, I've accomplished lots of stuff, but it's more or less unfulfilling. The company here is going through some reorganizations, so all the managers are managing "upwards" and are focused on saving their own butts, and not focused on projects, or creating more work. It's quite an inefficient place. I see a lot of opportunities here, but it's going to take a while before it really comes into its own. It's a fairly young company.I just got an email from a recruiter in Raleigh, who was asking about a job there whom I had talked to when I accepted my current position. So, I'll hear what he has to say. Who knows, maybe I'll move again, and love it!  We'll see.  I hate moving, though.</blockquote>

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