Enough is enough

This week's big news is that I've told my boss that I don't like the job and I'm going home. That's right! After a pitifully short time over here, I'm running away. Allow me to explain.

When I took on a permanent job, the plan was that it would be a relatively long term commitment and as such Simon would come over here and join me. Though that was always conditional on my enjoyment of my job. I have to say that debugging the software team's work via RTL simulations and repeatedly finding the same bug after they have supposedly fixed it (about half a dozen times now, but who's counting) is not my idea of satisfying work.

Admittedly, I was a little unfair on my boss. In the past I have always made it my policy to give a first warning that I'm not enjoying the work to give him a chance to fix things. I know from experience this has never worked, so this time I figured "why bother?"

It's not just the job though. All in all, Australia (yes, even Sydney) is a better place to live than here. You get more for your money back home so you can afford to live a better lifestyle. Also, Londoners are a reasonably rude and self-centred bunch and they are seriously lacking in an environment conscience over here (they want to put everything into a plastic bag).

As for the idea of using the UK as a base for travelling in Europe, that didn't really work either. As I learned during my trip to Paris, travelling by yourself is not all that much fun (well, not for me anyway).

So, the plan is as follows. I'm going to keep working up until mid November, at which time Simon is coming over. He booked his flights today! We're going to do a bit of travelling together before we head home on the flight I was originally booked to come home on (even though I paid extra to get a ticket I could change, oh well). We'll be back in Sydney on December 3.