I'm still evaluating this Thursday. Some good: I wound up earlier this week trying to initiate a discussion of a huge and high-profile overseas project for which our products are being bid -- today I *finally* got all the parties who need to be talking, talking. Now I can bow out; the only reason I was "in" was that the overseas guy knew nobody here but me. (We've known each other since 2003 and we discussed this project during a recent meeting.)
And later I was "invited" to a company "leadership team" retreat next month. A little worried about that -- it smacks a little of "corporate ladder" and that's definitely NOT where I want to be! Off the org chart and "expert in this, that and the other" (i.e. irreplaceable) is where I need to be.
Then again I learned today that my role model in "expert in this, that and the other" (i.e. irreplaceable) --from *before* I began my career-- was just laid off. But I bet he'll be snatched up by the competition in short order.
Unknown: the state bill I want killed doesn't seem to be dead yet. Somebody is trying to kill it though; LoM laughed when I told her this evening it now has a fiscal note attached. But the note shows zero state cost and little local cost, so it doesn't do much.
What a day! I am wiped.
I had a friend who was in new product development for a large computer company. He liked to change jobs with in the company working in different division. He thought that if he made himself irreplaceable that it would make it difficult to change. He retired just before a merger not wanting to deal with the politics. I heard from a mutual friend that his wife has not retired her old shopping habits so he might try to pick up a little work here and there.