I’m feeling quite lazy today, so Part C is going to be a brief instalment.  Hey – at least I’m making an effort.  I should have a bit of time over the weekend, so expect long-winded essays then…  As with yesterday, I’m going to cheat a little…

Positive Fact C

I’m extremely immature and good (if somewhat dirty) humoured.  I don’t tend to take things very seriously at all.

I’d like to think that this fosters some kind of enjoyable work environment – I’ve yet to be hauled in front of the courts for helping to create an expletive-ridden, dirt-mongering office environment.  Only today, I was encouraging work colleagues to search the Internet for reviews on Aberdeen whores.  The scary thing is, we (or rather, I – I don’t wish to taint anyone else in the office here) managed to find some cursory reviews, including one girl who is “alleged to be the dirtiest cock sucker in the world – advance booking recommended”! (the totally work-unfriendly link is here).

Maybe not a well-known fact, but I do enjoy reverting into extremely childish moods at times.  I enjoy the whole universe of Pokémon – in fact I have a number of these plush toys adoring my office and at home.  The Animaniacs are my other passion – my first company was named after the location they lived in, and all of the PCs I’ve owned since starting business has invariably been named after one of the characters on the show.  I have pretty much all their soundtracks, and am occasionally prone to singing aloud to them in the car (which must be a completely mad sight – a chubby oriental-type sitting in an obscenely expensive Audi RS 6, singing along to the kiddie-oriented Be Careful What you Eat song as sung by the Warner Brothers (and Warner sister)).

The net effect is that I probably spend half my time acting like a 10 year old, and really enjoying it.  Life’s too short to take seriously all the time – kick back, and have laid-back and innocently-humoured fun!

Negative Fact C

Alas – my utter immaturity and childishness rubs some people the wrong way.  I suspect that there may be a few people within the IT industry who might view me as being totally insane, especially given my entirely retarded behaviour at parts of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this year.  I am also perhaps not the most professional representative of our company, as evidenced by what I get up to at professional training courses – that was no random freebie junket, but a £3,500 course paid for with company money…!

Yes – I know that my colleagues sometimes despair at the utter lack of self-control I have, and I have no doubt are sometimes faintly embarrassed on my behalf.  I know that my childish antics have certainly knocked back my professional credibility a bit.

It’s all about getting a decent balance between having fun and enjoying work, and remaining professional enough to perform the work and to instil confidence within work colleagues, clients and partners.  Although I’m having a ton of irreverent fun, I’ve obviously not got this balance right, and I suspect the business suffers because of this… :(