Still broken up about it
More than a year has passed and I still can’t let it go. I have dreams about going back to my old job and being with my old co-workers having fun and making games. Sometimes the bosses are glad to have me back, sometimes the office has been remodeled to varing degrees, but the theme is still the same: I wish I still worked there.
Ame and I think I miss the socialization most of all. I used to go to lunch almost everyday with Rich and Joel (funny enough they don’t work there anymore either) and others. After losing that job, I occasionally spent time out with Rich and others, and that was a lot of fun. Ame and I like Chad a lot, he’s a good guy. Steve’s a good one too, it’s just hard to schedule an outing with him sometimes – especially now with the schedule that Ame and I keep.
At the job I have now, I get along with most of my coworkers quite well. Alouna, a semi-boss of mine, is awesome, along with several others, but it’s hard to have any interactions with people because the workday is tightly scheduled. When I used to go to lunch with Rich & Co., we were gone “for about an hour,” we came back, and then finished up the tasks for the day. Here, lunch time is exactly 60 minutes, and a friend may be scheduled differently. The upshot is you end up eating alone with no real way to socialize. Or I could just not be trying hard enough.
But who cares? This is a temporary job anyway. I don’t want to stay.