Balance in life

Lots of changes happened at work in the last few months. Project changed; weird or secretive and uncomfortable working environment; people who have worked here for only 2-3 years left. It made me to think about all the negatives working here and wanted to leave too. But I am not ready to move again, only after working here for one year.

Last year was busy but fulfilling and rewarding. Assigned an important project and completed well. What's more important is I've built a collaboration relationship with all different kinds of colleagues, in a calm or stormy way. I survived well. I caught up with lots of CV knowledge different from those I worked on before; for which I am very proud of. I'm even more proud of myself looking at the qualifications of the applicants. Starting from unpopular range image processing, I broadened my knowledge base to widely popular and important CV topics while working at D. I must be smart and working very hard if not crazy. The key is to improve yourself everyday no matter where you are and what company you work for.

I felt discouraged and down when suddenly my colleagues left; I am now up to a good level to start working hard, making good contributions, and feeling good about myself. The IP application is really encouraging!

Positives working here:

1. good relationship with all colleagues
2. relatively flexible research environment, not demanding boss
3. chance to research advanced technologies, not only implementing existing approaches
4. good job for John

Negatives:

1. less drive and less focused on R&D from the management
2. the team hasn't been very productive