On Friday, I took my job and shoved it. This resulted from my job attempting to shove me. It's a stupid standard story of corporate bullshit, from beginning to end. I left Noteworthy with renewed distaste for the people I worked for, but renewed regard for the people I worked with.

For a while, it was the best job I've ever had. The majority of the people there were smarter than I was. Being around them made me smarter. Creativity was liable to boil over at any moment.

After a few critical hiring decisions, the feeling in the office changed. To become a large, successful company, it was decided, we had to act like a large company. There were now people whose jobs consisted of formulating and documenting processes (pronounce the last syllable “ease” for full effect) that would help us “manage expectations” by making software development predictable. Or so they claimed. The real effect was to make software development mediocre.

That was only one in my list of grievances. I could have quit 8 or 9 months ago, when the list started growing long. I thought I was forcing myself to grow by putting up with shit I couldn't stand. In retrospect, that was dumb. I should have left as soon as it stopped being fun.

It's only been a couple days, but I feel wonderful about everything. The world is pretty again. Noteworthy felt like this for the first few months. I hold my next job, whatever it'll be, to a higher standard.

Gentle reader, have you suggestions for what sort of work I should seek, and/or where?