I've been very unhappy in my job role at work for the past 11 months. At the start of the year I was selected to attend an ETL training course and have since been exclusively allocated to ETL projects at work, and have not seen a single curly brace or semi colon outside of my own pet projects all year.

Not good.

I really don't like not liking my job, and these feelings toward my current role have been some what alien to me as I've enjoyed almost all of all of the other jobs I've ever had. Every job has its moments, obviously, you know, strikes and gutters and all that, but spending 11 months not enjoying what I was doing really should have given me the kick in the arse to GTFO and get another job. But it didn't.

Things have come very close to boiling point a few times, but because of the current economic climate (and a few other bits 'n' bobs) I haven't been actively looking for a new job at all. Not yet anyway. But it was getting very very close.

A light at the end of the tunnel appeared a few weeks ago when there was a mention of an Application Architect role becoming available which would span the development team and the architecture team bridging the gap and bringing the two teams closer together. Previously architecture has sat completely separate from development, not just structurally, but also physically, which just doesn't work.

Today I accepted the role of Application Architect!

I'll go into more details soon.

Watch this space!