let me give you a scenario of what my life is like
The following is nearly the entire contents of a note I wrote to my sister this morning. I think she will forgive me for cutting and pasting to here.
Although things here are going well, there of course are always snags. Let me take this opportunity to give you a bit of a scenario of what my life is like. The people at "work" I think are glad enough to have me there that the other day my "boss" told me he thought they (around 15 employees including him) had gotten so used to me being around that it would be strange when I left. This made me feel great. However ...
I've been working on totally revamping their web site, which when I got here would have been a D+ high school science project but which I've demonstrated can be made into a fully functional site that can accept credit cards, get updated daily by them with little or no pain (they were paying R$300 a page previously), do photo albums, search functionality, multiple languages, and freaking fry eggs even. It's all there, I just need the go-ahead from them to switch the page over to the new one (a process which takes around 0.5 seconds). I told them at the beginning of last week I'd like to switch over at the end of last week, and they were like, OK, cool, we just have to have it authorized by the people in Rio.
And of course I've been bugging the shit out of the boss daily: "did you talk to so-and-so ... blah blah blah" and he's always just like, "i still have to talk to him today." I've told them that given the amount of work I've put into it (easily 40-80 hours) I have to get a go-ahead from them before I invest any more, since I don't want to do a crapload more work if they're just going to decide not to do it. And they're like ... OK. But I'm getting the feeling that they're stalling. Which is fine, so I asked multiple times "please tell me what I can change to make it better or more like what you want." And so far nothing from that end.
The work I've done for them so far is something on the order of $5000-$20000 US, which is close to the entire net worth of their operation.
Basically at the end of this week I'm inclined to tell them that I'm going to stop coming in until they decide what to do. Which would just be silly because of all the friends I have there now. And when I listen to that voice that encourages me to do vindictive things, I usually end up doing something really stupid.
I don't think there is any easy way to deal with this. My approach right now is to step lightly, since I did already kind of come in and tell them what we're going to do with the web pages. And I'm sure I'm close to stepping on someone's (or many people's) toes by taking over the whole thing myself. But ... hopefully you can understand my aggravation. Ah, what the hell do I know - based on past experience I'm probably letting all this crap get to my head too easily.
Although things here are going well, there of course are always snags. Let me take this opportunity to give you a bit of a scenario of what my life is like. The people at "work" I think are glad enough to have me there that the other day my "boss" told me he thought they (around 15 employees including him) had gotten so used to me being around that it would be strange when I left. This made me feel great. However ...
I've been working on totally revamping their web site, which when I got here would have been a D+ high school science project but which I've demonstrated can be made into a fully functional site that can accept credit cards, get updated daily by them with little or no pain (they were paying R$300 a page previously), do photo albums, search functionality, multiple languages, and freaking fry eggs even. It's all there, I just need the go-ahead from them to switch the page over to the new one (a process which takes around 0.5 seconds). I told them at the beginning of last week I'd like to switch over at the end of last week, and they were like, OK, cool, we just have to have it authorized by the people in Rio.
And of course I've been bugging the shit out of the boss daily: "did you talk to so-and-so ... blah blah blah" and he's always just like, "i still have to talk to him today." I've told them that given the amount of work I've put into it (easily 40-80 hours) I have to get a go-ahead from them before I invest any more, since I don't want to do a crapload more work if they're just going to decide not to do it. And they're like ... OK. But I'm getting the feeling that they're stalling. Which is fine, so I asked multiple times "please tell me what I can change to make it better or more like what you want." And so far nothing from that end.
The work I've done for them so far is something on the order of $5000-$20000 US, which is close to the entire net worth of their operation.
Basically at the end of this week I'm inclined to tell them that I'm going to stop coming in until they decide what to do. Which would just be silly because of all the friends I have there now. And when I listen to that voice that encourages me to do vindictive things, I usually end up doing something really stupid.
I don't think there is any easy way to deal with this. My approach right now is to step lightly, since I did already kind of come in and tell them what we're going to do with the web pages. And I'm sure I'm close to stepping on someone's (or many people's) toes by taking over the whole thing myself. But ... hopefully you can understand my aggravation. Ah, what the hell do I know - based on past experience I'm probably letting all this crap get to my head too easily.
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