Well, as some of you may remember, H started a new job at the first of the year. Frustrated with various issues at work, he looked around for other opportunities, and actually had a couple to choose from. Ended up choosing the riskiest choice - but which had the biggest potential long-term payoff. Chose the start-up company with old school friend.
First month H was busy ramping up, learning the ropes, acquiring necessary business skills through serious reading at night and applying his prodigious brainpower to analysis. There was a crisis the first week he started, and he pitched in and helped get the mess cleaned up. Then began to do his job that he was hired for - a largely analytical job - but wait: couldn't really do that job because of operational deficiencies that got in the way. So, my Mr. Fixit jumped into getting those operational deficiencies fixed first, so that he and others could do their jobs.
H was only supposed to have to travel about 1 week per month, but has had to travel every week. Between that and working nights and weekends to get everything going, he's been burning the candle at both ends.
Now, this start-up company has been going for about 18 months before H joined. Is currently starting a real growth phase. H, coming on board late, is only just now realizing some disturbing things about the incompetence of the other executives (and yes, I do believe this is true, not just H's skewed version).
He's tired, he's fried, and now he's pissed that he passed up a better-paying job with a prestigious company for this. Feels he was misled by friend and that company isn't nearly ready for prime-time. Feels HE could make it work, but not with current executive personnel. Tonight he was completely at the end of his rope.
I'm bummed that this isn't working out for him (through no fault of his own - I actually think he's brilliant at this business stuff, and was enjoying it before he realized what a mess the company was). I had hoped this job change would be a healthy MLC outlet. The financial risk is not too great - he could probably still get rehired at his former job, but it would bum him out to go back there with "his tail between his legs". Plus, the issues that drove him to want to leave there in the first place will still be there.
And to make me even more nervous - I don't know for sure whether he's taking his antidepressants. Not something I can ask him, since he resents taking them a little and sometimes blames me.
Meanwhile, S20 got dumped this week by his internet girlfriend (a student in Texas he'd been writing and talking to for a year) and is very sad going into his midterms this week.
And I'm falling behind on organizing things for the big 75th birthday party we're throwing for my mom this weekend.
Yikes!!
Oh yeah - and I'm not sure, but I THINK I'm developing an allergy to chocolate. How awful would that be??????
