So. Much ado and I end up more or less where I started.

As I sort of expected, I'll be signing on with the outsourcing company on Monday. There's been a little haggling over money (which I won) and vacation time (which I'm gonna win, but still come out behind on), but it's getting done.

The bad news? I'll still be at this firm, dealing with the same people who wouldn't let me change the things that clearly needed changing. And I hate most of these people.

The good news? New boss. She seems nice, though maybe a little too list-oriented for me. She'll be a buffer for me and the people I hate. She won't be on-sight, but she'll be sort of an advocate. And she'll apparently be given the benefit of expert status that I was told I would have a year ago, but was ultimately denied. And if they deny it to her? Well, that's not my problem. And frankly, I don't care.

Another good thing about the new boss? She's already telling them I need more space. Sure, I have been saying it for almost a year, but she might get results. We shall see.

Anyway. The biggest thing that needs to come out of this is a new urgency on my part. To get my writing (started a new horror story, though it's still little more than a paragraph and a sketch and I've been writing down new ideas for a couple comic book ideas), and my career going. The careeer is gonna be harder, I think. The outsourcing agency offers a lot of different training courses, and I plan on scoping that out and seeing if I can take advantage of that. Other than that, I need to start really thinking about where I want to go and what I want to do. And see how my skills transfer. For so long I've viewed my job as a shitty job that got me along that now I can't see what skills I've picked up and how to apply them to a job that might bring me more satisfaction (and possibly more scratch [sure I could've said money, but hey...]).

So. For now, I'm calmer and happier than I've been in a couple weeks. And hopefully I can focus on the job stuff enough so that after the wedding I can start making whatever changes I can, because it's gonna be a little too crazy trying to tie down stupid details and doing job stuff.