2025 was an alright year for me.
The beginning of the year was good. My partner surprised me with a dream vacation to Hawaii, which I absolutely loved and had a great time on. I also had a great job with coworkers I could truly call friends and spend time with outside of work. I enjoyed the work itself as well my skills were improving as our team grew, and we did a lot of design work to support the guys in the field.
Around April, though, the company decided to cut back and eliminated our entire department, which was completely messed up.
It took a couple of months to find a new job. At my current company, I honestly don’t care for the way they operate. They feel stingy in many areas like computer equipment, software, and company policies and the owner seems to lack trust in employees. My manager is a micromanaging control freak, which I can’t stand. During the interview process, they talked about plans that aligned with my background and skills, including transitioning to Revit and moving away from AutoCAD. However, the manager is still using CAD and insists that I do the same. I’ve been proving him wrong by doing all my work in Revit and reminding him that I was hired to use specific programs and handle project coordination things we still haven’t actually implemented.
Luckily, when I came on board, one of my former coworkers was hired as well. We work well together, but even he’s fed up with the company. He recently found another job and has already put in his two weeks’ notice. I’ve been looking for a new job too, sending my resume to several places, but I haven’t had much luck so far.
That’s pretty much how 2025 went for me aside from losing some weight and paying off some debt.
