Cache. Cookies. Cleared.

The past week turned out to be a particularly good one.

Item: For the first time in months, I actually enjoyed working. It felt like I was falling in love/like again with the job I applied for a year and a half ago. It’s a welcome change, considering that over the past couple of months I was on the brink of quitting. I even took a quiz online to help me assess my situation. The result was “Yes! Get out of there alive! Better start looking though.” AND “No, keep your current job.” 50-50. What do you know? Apparently I wasn’t the only one that’s undecided. Even the thing that I turned to to supposedly help me decide was.

After thinking it through, I finally chose to stay put. I just couldn’t shake off the prospect of receiving envelope after envelope of credit card and phone bills in the mail and not being able to pay them in between my current job and the next. Plus, the present state of the economy isn’t exactly conducive to successful jobhunting.

I chose to start over and stay. On my ergonomic chair. In front of my flickering monitor. Amongst soldering irons, printed circuit boards, signal generators and oscilloscopes. In the company of some of the best and funnest people one could hope to be teamed up with. And with hindsight, I’m glad I did.

Come to think of it, my rekindled interest in my job is also due to my newfound food fave, Arcor Tortitas. These deeply satisfying vanilla-filled cookies are available in the pantry-cum-honesty store in our office. It’s really hard not to get out of bed early and turn up for work every day when these little devils are waiting for you. Believe it or not, I quit Oreos for these.