San Francisco logs 2: Some shop-talk and new Mindful Goals...

Another underlying theme of the SF trip has been on the topic of career - current and future. I had a very lively work-related and passionate conversation with Ryan and Pete on Tuesday night (in a Sports bar pumping Ozzy and Metallica :) ). It was obvious that we all have different ideas about how we could make our employer successful (my "product-manager girl" ideas come from a different role-perspective that their "game development" don't necessarily see). The endless questions of who should develop strategic vision and how should it all get carried out, etc. We are en-masse frustrated by the idea of promotion of incompetence that happens where everyone works. In all, the the best parts that came out of the frank discussion was the sense that we all want to effect positive change. Idealism is alive, I cheer. The not-so-good thing to come out of it was that the challenges we have to making that happen are eating away at all of us and many good people may choose to leave our ranks. This brought to me the question of "WILL good change happen if the right people leave?". On the flip side of that, I am included in that uncertainty. I definately feel I have things to do yet - and despite the frustrations, I feel properly rewarded for the first time in my career life this is huge, as the music business had discouraged this pretty badly). YET. The gaming business won't be my final stop in career-world. Onthis trip to SF, I have found a renewed energy to start planning for the next one, albeit slowly. I am definately interesting in Life-coaching, and will start actively working towards the certification in what "spare" time I can find. I know that career will re-align the balance in my life with respect to friends, family, the artisitc side of me, etc. I do work towards it now, but I need to make this a MINDFUL GOAL.