Taken @ Brussels Metro by awk
Imagine you are thirsty for intellectual challenges and eager to learn new things. You arrive with your mind as open as it can be, with all (almost) your prejudices clean. You find a place full of competent engineers and technical problems that simply make you drool. You think you are in the right place and just in the right time. It seems exciting and you can almost feel the adrenaline rush. Your co-workers are nice and cool and your boss smart.
After a month you discover things do not move. The whole place is paralyzed because of holidays and lack of leadership. Nobody has the balls to make decisions and everything needs to be decided in consensus between four or more people. That’s the weird, really weird world where Belgians live (they haven’t even been able to agree on a government nor a language and their most important “attraction” is a statue that pisses).
I was expecting to do some engineering, to get some hands on the subject and instead I get to do slideware and prepare communication plans based on some knowledge exchange source that just requires copy paste (analyze?).
I’m not that good, really, but still I do wonder what a waste of talent. I am wasting my time, my mind, my capacity… In the end I am learning, perhaps a lot. But I am not learning what I want to learn. I am not motivated, and I just feel I am being shaped to fulfill a position nobody wants, nobody with brains has ever wanted.
I do not see a long future here if things don’t change soon. Yes, this is frustration.
