What a mess...

OK, remember in my last post how I raved about my new job as a QA Manager at a different company, but within the same virtual world? Forget about it. It's been a total mess from beginning to end. The week after I quit my job as Test Lead (to the day 1 week after I signed on as QA Manager), the site manager of the new company came to see me. Due to financial issues, the American owner of the company ordered all new hires to be immediately let go, including myself. In reality that meant that my time with the new company would be over before it even started! To make things worse, my old company could not take me back since the financial issues I just mentioned also meant that outstanding payments from the Americans to my old employer could and would not be finalized, leaving them short of cash. So I went from new job to no job in just a week.

This, of course, sucked major ass and I instantly started to look for a new job somewhere else. Fortunately for me, the market is practically screaming for good testers at the moment and it didn't take long before I connected with several new potential employers. And wouldn't you know, the one company I wanted to work with the most also wanted me, and even though they haven't set up their regional office here yet (they will within a month), they agreed to hire me and pay me while I stay home and wait for them to officially open (or when I get an assignment, whichever comes first) just to make sure that no one else hires me. How about that?

There will (most likely) be no more testing of virtual world platforms though, but that doesn't matter one bit. However, I doubt that I will find the time to keep this blog updated (I barely do now), so even if I don't shut it down right away, don't expect a lot of activity here in the near future.

But then again, you never know...

The times they are a-changin'

Once again, it's been a long time since I updated, almost 2½ months actually. A lot has happened during this time. The biggest, and by far most important change is that I've become a father again, to a beautiful daughter. Any fathers (or mothers for that matter) out there know exactly how great that feeling is.

Another big change happened today. I quit my job as Test Lead! A month from now I will start as QA Manager with another company. Since it's a business partner to my current company I will still work on the same product, but not on a platform level. Instead I will focus on the quality of the content provided by the new company. Exciting times indeed! Perhaps I will miss the more system oriented testing I'm doing today, but I just had to get away from that workplace. The stress that nearly took me down last fall is still present and it's not a good environment for me. But a fresh start with a new position at this new company (where I already know almost everybody) is what I need.

Yup, this will be good.