Wouldn't you know...

If it's my  news.. it's the deepest, darkest, bad secret in the world.

I'm still supposed to be keeping my job change a secret.  My current team won't know until tomorrow maybe... or we could just keep putting it off.   I'm not supposed to talk about it like it's a promotion.  I should keep that low key so my team mates aren't upset.   Okay, so keep it low key.  Got it.  I'll pretend I just got transferred to work in the salt mines of Siberia - that work for ya?  But hey, I can keep it even lower key.  Let's just not tell anyone.  Yeah.. that the ticket!

and then I'm asked aren't you excited???  I'd be over the moon!

Well... let me check that.  I'm supposed to be excited, keep it a secret, and downplay that it's a promotion.

Yep, sucked all the joy out of that news.

Like my life these days is just so filled with joyous news that I want to share.

Nope, not so much.

I'm changing jobs...

It's on the one hand a HUGE change...  and on the other...  I'm still working for the same company.

I'll move my desk to a different building two miles closer to home, and I'll leave the division where I've worked for the last 7 years...  I've worked in various areas of the great wally world...  now I'm embarking on yet a new adventure.

I'm nervous and thrilled at the same time.

I'll not carry a pager and spend a week every other month surviving on half an hour of sleep. No more day pager slowness call hostage situation.  I'll walk away from "systems programmer" and become a project manager.

I know little about my new area beyond the idea that I'll facilitate meetings, I'll understand the lingo of both my old division and my new customer area. I'll make things happen...  I'll bring my A-game and I'll give it my all.