Reposted from my LJ:
Old contract job = new employment job ~or~ Im finally a real boy (again)
For those who were interested and bothered to keep up on my absence from the real world (for whatever nefarious purposes you may have had); you might know that for the past whole year Id been contracting for FileNet Corp. in Costa Mesa. The schedule, distance and continuing temporary status of contract work had largely kept me from living a real life. Even though the money was fantastic, there was a certain anxiety about never knowing when I was going to have to stop everything and hold onto whatever was still in the bank at the time. Well thats done now. FileNet hired me and now Im permanent. Huge raise, benefits on day 1 (today is my third day), and serious job security. Im now officially an Applications Systems Analyst. Im not doing web development for a living anymore (most of my work wasnt dev anyway), but this is quite the step up. Supporting and developing for professional applications that will keep me working for the rest of my career. Ive just been promoted to my level of incompetence. Ill still be doing development, and some of it will be web development as it relates to the applications Im responsible for, but for the most part, Im going to be doing a completely different job, learning a completely new skill set built on the knowledge I already have. The same *kind* of work (high level support and development), but none of it will be like anything Ive done before. The first phase of my employment is having Java and Oracle jammed down my throat in intensive crash courses.
And for the San Francisco friends: August 12 August 18, Ill be in The City for training at SalesForce.com. A whole week should be plenty of time to see everyone and hit the clubs, etc.
One upside to the new permanent status is a schedule change. More specifically, schedule flexibility. I can now start as early as 7:30 AM if I want which allows me to beat the bulk of traffic northward on days I want to do that. This greatly shortens my drive time and ultimate exhaustion when I finally get home. In turn this has allowed me to start having a social life again. This will be evident tonight at Das Bunker. I seriously think that I havent been there in almost a whole year, maybe longer...
Old contract job = new employment job ~or~ Im finally a real boy (again)
For those who were interested and bothered to keep up on my absence from the real world (for whatever nefarious purposes you may have had); you might know that for the past whole year Id been contracting for FileNet Corp. in Costa Mesa. The schedule, distance and continuing temporary status of contract work had largely kept me from living a real life. Even though the money was fantastic, there was a certain anxiety about never knowing when I was going to have to stop everything and hold onto whatever was still in the bank at the time. Well thats done now. FileNet hired me and now Im permanent. Huge raise, benefits on day 1 (today is my third day), and serious job security. Im now officially an Applications Systems Analyst. Im not doing web development for a living anymore (most of my work wasnt dev anyway), but this is quite the step up. Supporting and developing for professional applications that will keep me working for the rest of my career. Ive just been promoted to my level of incompetence. Ill still be doing development, and some of it will be web development as it relates to the applications Im responsible for, but for the most part, Im going to be doing a completely different job, learning a completely new skill set built on the knowledge I already have. The same *kind* of work (high level support and development), but none of it will be like anything Ive done before. The first phase of my employment is having Java and Oracle jammed down my throat in intensive crash courses.
And for the San Francisco friends: August 12 August 18, Ill be in The City for training at SalesForce.com. A whole week should be plenty of time to see everyone and hit the clubs, etc.
One upside to the new permanent status is a schedule change. More specifically, schedule flexibility. I can now start as early as 7:30 AM if I want which allows me to beat the bulk of traffic northward on days I want to do that. This greatly shortens my drive time and ultimate exhaustion when I finally get home. In turn this has allowed me to start having a social life again. This will be evident tonight at Das Bunker. I seriously think that I havent been there in almost a whole year, maybe longer...