I am getting too many super, new, shiny things at the moment. I am facing the very real risk of becoming spoilt!

If work give in to my forthcoming demands for a pony made of diamonds and a golden crown with giant rubies then there is no hope…

I received my iPhone over a week ago now and at work yesterday my new server and new screen were delivered. The server is nothing spectacular, a few-year-old rack mount one that I shall transfer Ubuntu Linux onto when I have time – currently I have my old work desktop PC box as my linux server but after proving the benefit of one, a proper server has been bought. We also acquired a server cabinet to slot it into today. My new screen at work is lovely, I had been using an old 19″ standard widescreen 1440×900 screen but after a few too many hints and a small amount of sulking/whinging I now have a brand new 1920×1080 HD widescreen screen, and I love it. I might get one for my desk at home to go with the new laptop when I buy it if the Apple Cinema screen is too expensive. I also have plans to possibly buy myself a DSLR camera this year. Like I said, spoilt.

It will actually make my job easier and save time because I can get more data on screen and won’t have to keep scrolling across or switching between open files – which was a little infuriating.

Also, my old screen and old desktop PC which was the temporary linux server shall be combined and reborn as my second work PC – with a desktop version of Ubuntu Linux installed. I’m getting a desk extension to fit this in.

I also got another pay rise, moving my salary ever closer to the amount deserved for the things I do. I’m happy to have it bumped in increments and I really cannot complain about my salary increasing by nearly 30% over slightly more than six months, taking all three pay rises since June last year into account.

It wouldn’t be entirely incorrect to say I’m doing really well when it comes to my career at the moment. I’ve had a few setbacks and low points but I’ve got an environment where I can do well, and they don’t come with most jobs/companies for me. I’ve always been the poster boy for unrealised potential – the one who could do really well if he just got on with it and stopped fighting authority and fucking everything up by doing stupid things.

I’ll give everything I have if people just let me be me and I think it is worth it. I don’t know how long I’ll stick with my current career but I have no current plans to do other things at the moment. I’d like to move back to London one day, but that’s not going to happen until I can replicate my current living arrangements at North London prices.

The only thing I have conflicted opinions about is being ‘management’, at the moment this is not an issue as there are only five of us working full time and we all have very specific areas of responsibility – I am going to find it very difficult having someone looking at me as some kind of manager/supervisor, it is going to be the most difficult thing I’ve had to cope with since I joined this company eighteen months ago.

The only thing worse than accepting authority figures is becoming one…