Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Does the tunnel end here?

I do not know what it is but I seem to have lost all interest in working at my current workplace. I am bored to the core now. I think I can comfortably attribute this to the project I am working on. I have worked on several projects, a few difficult ones too, but never come across a project like this.

I cannot count one thing on this project that I can confidently say is going right. The resources here are bored. The clients do not know what they want. There seems to be infighting at the client side. There is a lot of politics in the team here. The writers are least interested. The management is helpless (or should I aptly say 'clueless'?)

I am lost and I want to find my way out. There are 2 ways out; one, move a different project within the same organization or two, move to a different organization. With the current market situation, both these ways out are difficult. Since there aren’t any new project coming in from the US, the chances of getting into another project in the same organization is slim. Also, since the market is so bad, it is not a good time to switch jobs. Never know which company declares bankruptcy or starts to layoff. In both scenarios, the first targets for layoffs are the new joinees.

I am in a fix.I sure cannot live through this project for a month or so more. I will go crazy by the end of it all. I feel helpless. Like they say, there is light at the end of every tunnel, I do not see light yet. Maybe I am not at the end of the tunnel yet. Don't know how far I got to go before I reach the end.