The good and the just okay

I've been meaning to put up an update of what's been going on at work, but I've been putting it off until something really big happened. The good news is, that's getting closer all the time. The bad news is, I've been saying that since October.

A bit of a recap: I've been a bit vague about what I'm actually doing in Singapore, mainly because I shared a bit more than I should have about my internship back in Luxembourg and I don't wish to make that mistake again. (Then again, maybe it's just that the company back in Luxembourg was one messed-up place all around and I should have shared more stories about how that was the case. But I refuse to dwell on that false start now that I've successfully moved on. Anyhow.) Also, there wasn't a whole lot to report at first. It's a software company, and I'm doing marketing and strategy. I'm hoping to branch off into finance eventually, and for the time being I get to handle that too as there isn't a lot to report as far as finances are concerned. Our flagship product has been in development stages since before I started, and the original release date was set for October. Since startups never run too smoothly, that date got pushed back to the end of February. I'm slated to oversee our official release event at a road show at a local department store here, which was going to happen this coming weekend.

That event has now been pushed back one more week. The good news is that it looks like this delay really will be the last one. It's really just as well, as preparations for the big event hadn't been going as smootly as they could anyway.

Frustrating? Sure. But with all the stories in the news about sky-high unemployment, I don't dare complain. I really don't want to complain much anyway. There's a lot of creative work in this job that I've enjoyed so far - everything from writing scripts for commercials to market research on exotic locales where I think we might be able to sell the software. So, yeah. No complaints. It's not what I wanted to be doing when I finished my MBA, but several of the companies where I did want to end up are now out of business.

More updates as they come!