About a couple of months ago, I was [almost] offered a very cool position in my company's data warehouse team. The job is practically mine, just not yet. There is one tiny little problem: all new positions are frozen at the moment.
Fortunately, I might be able to get my feet wet in the data warehouse while helping satisfy a huge corporate need. The manager and the director that oversee the data warehouse persuaded my director to let me help them with a rather important project. This project involves creating a Business Objects universe for Unicenter ServiceDesk. Hearing the good news today made me jump up and down, since this short but high-visibility project will be [or might be] both challenging and a great learning experience. That is, of course, if the other news I heard today do not keep me from taking on this project.
As it turns out, our intern is leaving... he found a programmer job in Zeeland, Michigan. That is really good news for him, but at the same time, it is terrible news for my team. It means we are losing a full time person during a time when we cannot hire anyone to replace him. What that translates into is that my [almost] new project with the data warehouse team might not happen if my workload increases too much. Talk about [bad] timing being everything!