Crappy Choice

Well at the end of a project I have to go out and look for more work. We have staffing managers but they only get to the assignments that no one basically volunteered or asked to have. So I have a crappy choice. I can either A. hit the beach and kiss my good rating for the year goodbye, or I can B. take a role that doesn’t get me much experience and may keep from getting on the project I really want.

I don’t think this is a very good choice. I would like to get on the international project at my current client, but there is no more work on the project I am on and the new one doesn’t start until April (I don’t think it will really start until May though). So I have to find something to do. I was hoping for PRD (proposal or sales) work but instead I got tapped to help a project that went down the tubes months ago. But it is on the same client with the same partner. So it is good that they want to keep on board! And it is something I’m pretty sure I can handle.

Anyway before I could make a choice, it was basically made for me. Oh well. So after a two month assignment that started last July and will end the last week of February I am off to my 3^rd project. Ok so maybe my project was a bit longer than two months; It looks like my next assignment will be similar. Originally, it was only for a couple of weeks to get the set up. Now my role has expanded so that I am now executing and running a thread on my own. Also the latest version of the plan has me still here until possibly the end of May. Hopefully it takes and additional month to get the next project going and I can roll right on to it.