I think if you look back over all my posts, there are probably more "not dead" posts than anything else. But there you are, I'm still not dead. So in that respect at least, things could be worse.

Work could aways be better, but I think that goes for the vast majority of the worlds population. I've now officially got my own team, with full line management responsibilities (performance reviews and all that jazz). It's only a small 4 man team at the moment (myself included) but it's due to grow to 8 very quickly. I've found the recruitment process interesting, and if it's as hard to fail to get a job elsewhere (so far we've ended up offering roles to everyone who had applied), I stand a very good chance of landing something should I ever work up the courage to leave my comfy cocoon.