Today's been a roller coaster ride. The high and the low point of the week. The high point was definitely managing to have dinner with one of my oldest school friends who now lives in Stockholm. He works for a wonderfully interesting company called Spotify http://www.spotify.com/en/. It's nice to see an old friend doing well and doing something really exciting. On top of that he has a wonderful family who really liked my "walking walrus" present.
The low point was ringing the other guys in the RFP team after dinner only to hear that one of the Senior Executives had thrown us a swerve ball 24 hours before we're meant to finish the response document. Not good. My experience over the last 7 months is that you always get something out of the blue in the last week. We had got until 8PM on Thursday night and I thought we'd escaped. Unfortunately not. A new Senior Executive was thrown into the fray and he decided that everything had to be re-done. I'm here with the other guys in the bid team (Adrian Hillary and Thierry Grima). We've got on really well over the course of the last month, but the final throes promise to be gruesome.......oh, and on top of that I've still got my banking project and opportunity, my transportation client and a new pharma client....I haven't had time to follow my own advice this week unfortunately. Roll on 3 weeks of vacation!
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