Tellin The Truth Can Be Dangerous Business

The project I'm assigned to at work has been extended now until June 1st - through no fault or direct hand of myself or my team. This has been a big blow to us though because we signed up to do this through February and now we're just further and further away from Our Big Day.
June 1st is just the big day, we actually have post-production support responsibilities probably about 90 days after that. Boo.

The thing that's really remarkable is how these dates are passed over to us like we shouldn't mind. Despite the fact that there are marriages that are in trouble right now because of the schedule up to this point and this project is only nine months old, they don't realize the personal toll this date push places on us.

Granted, I have less to lose being unmarried and without children. But their assumption is that I'd rather be working on this project than anything else because it's good for my career. Bollocks to that! My career is not the priority in my life - I'm not trying to make the next level promotion, I don't care if I'm a Vice President by the time I'm 35, I don't care to have lunches with the C-level executives because my heart is not in my career anymore. The stupid thing is, I marched into this company with that attitude - they knew I was downsizing my life when I left my previous company and came here.

The irony is, if someone said to me "This time next year, you'll be married to a control freak, barefoot and pregnant depending on your husband for an allowance and going out only when he gives you permission." (This is, of course, what men in executive levels think is what is waiting for women who don't want careers.) But my answer would have to be, to that phrophecy, "So, my life won't change then?"