End of Year Griping: Part 2 (Does Everybody But Me Work for LabAnswer, Now?)
Written by Gloria Metrick on . Published as written. It may not reflect how these systems work today.
Every time I look in LinkedIn for someone I know or have worked with, more and more of them seem to work for LabAnswer, now. I know they've been trying to grow, but I'm now getting a real complex about this. I now feel like absolutely everybody but me now works for LabAnswer. I'm starting to think I really am all alone here "Out on a LIMS®."
At the end of the year, I tend to notice these things as I look to catch-up with people I've lost touch with, over the year. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I see so many people jump jobs, each year, just surprised how many end up moving in the same direction.
Over the years that I've had my business, I'm glad to work for myself. After all, it's good that I have work. Yet, at the same time, I do sometimes wonder about the jobs that I COULD have had. Instead of working for myself, writing articles for periodicals such as SCW (Scientific Computing World) and taking the best projects that come through GeoMetrick Enterprises, here are some jobs I COULD have had: Junior Programmer at LGS (LabWare Global Services), Lost-in-the-Shuffle at Thermo Fisher Scientific or Under-the-Radar at LabAnswer. While the excitement and glamour of doing something different sometimes dazzles me, I suspect that GeoMetrick Enterprises will be stuck with me for yet another year. I'll make a toast to that and I'm sure I can dig up something around here to help me make that toast. :-)
Gloria Metrick
GeoMetrick Enterprises
http://www.GeoMetrick.com/