Winds of change

No, I'm not changing jobs again - at least not at the moment. I generally like to stay somewhere a full year before I start looking for something better. But my job is changing - that is, they're doing a major overhaul of the entire system to create "the Newspaper of the Future"

Without getting into too much boring detail, it bascially boils down to I have no idea what I will be doing a month from now. All I know is that it will be drastically different from what I do now. Will it be better? I'm kind of a pessimist, so I'm leaning toward no. I actually like things the way they are now, and I'm afraid of change - Wow, maybe that means I'm becoming a Republican!!

It also means that we're going to go through a transition phase where we have to put out two papers every day - the paper that the subscribers will get and then the "newspaper of the future" prototypes. It makes my eyes hurt just thinking about it (because proofing all that copy and staring at a computer that long really strains your eyes).

On the upside, I might end up with a better schedule out of the deal. Mondays and Tuesdays off just plain blow. I'm hoping for Thursday, Friday, but in my case they'll probably just leave me stuck with the same days off since I have absolutely no seniority (there's that pessimism again).