Searching

I’ve found myself looking for a new job. I don’t think I’m seriously wanting to move on, but I have been feeling restless, and I must confess to having a few fears about whether my current position will even exist in the near future. Lots of little changes are being instigated and the only possible endgame I can envisage would be a further amalgamation of the management sub-divisions in the local area. The company seems obsessed with streamlining, cost-cutting and wage reduction, and if the ‘four garages managed by one person’ experiment worked as well as it has, why wouldn’t they think that they can squeeze things even further? Why shouldn’t ‘sixteen garages managed by one person’ work? Most of what I do is pointless micro-management, and many of my clerical tasks could probably be carried out by cleverly written programmes and algorithms. No doubt there’s a 16-year-old gamer sitting in his bedroom right now who could make my existence redundant if he put down his gamepad and picked up a MacBook. Hopefully that gamer has the same levels of ambition and motivation as me, so they’ll never get their arse out of their gaming chair, but I still have to accept that the possibility is there, and growing by the day.

So I’m having a look around and seeing if there’s anything I like.

So far, I have to report, there isn’t.

RC 14-8-19