I'm liking October
Oct. 28th, 2010 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceOKAY, that was an eventful week! The short version is that today was my last day of work at Quiktrak, in an hour I'll jump in a taxi to the airport for a trip to Turkey and a rendezvous with katealaurel, and on the 15th I'll start work at Puppet Labs.
I don't really have time for the long version, but the sort of medium-length one is that I'd been getting pretty dissatisfied about where I was going in my job, and decided a few months ago to start looking around in earnest for a new thing. Before I'd gotten far, our very samekatealaurel tipped me off to the opening at Puppet, and that started happening.
In the meantime, I'd already scheduled this trip to Turkey before even starting the job hunt. Once Puppet's selection process got down to the last couple stages, I wasn't expecting to hear whether I'd made it until during or after the trip, but it sped up right at the end, and I got the job offer last Friday night. Then I started freaking out about the whole two weeks' notice situation, since Puppet wanted me to start on the 15th and I wasn't sure whether Quiktrak was going to ask me to stay a full 10 workdays, which would, well, problems.
Shouldn't have worried--my (newly reorganized) manager at QT independently suggested making today my last day, which worked out great. This way, I get a clean break, a nice vacation, and several days to recuperate once I get back stateside.
So yeah, I have successfully jumped from a stable but unfulfilling job to a salaried position as a writer during the worst job market in my lifetime, and now I'm about to go spend a little short of two weeks with a beautiful girl in an exciting European and/or Asian locale. Shit is looking up.
(Obligatory Scott Pilgrim: If my life had a face...)
katealaurel, and on the 15th I'll start work at Puppet Labs. I don't really have time for the long version, but the sort of medium-length one is that I'd been getting pretty dissatisfied about where I was going in my job, and decided a few months ago to start looking around in earnest for a new thing. Before I'd gotten far, our very same
katealaurel tipped me off to the opening at Puppet, and that started happening. In the meantime, I'd already scheduled this trip to Turkey before even starting the job hunt. Once Puppet's selection process got down to the last couple stages, I wasn't expecting to hear whether I'd made it until during or after the trip, but it sped up right at the end, and I got the job offer last Friday night. Then I started freaking out about the whole two weeks' notice situation, since Puppet wanted me to start on the 15th and I wasn't sure whether Quiktrak was going to ask me to stay a full 10 workdays, which would, well, problems.
Shouldn't have worried--my (newly reorganized) manager at QT independently suggested making today my last day, which worked out great. This way, I get a clean break, a nice vacation, and several days to recuperate once I get back stateside.
So yeah, I have successfully jumped from a stable but unfulfilling job to a salaried position as a writer during the worst job market in my lifetime, and now I'm about to go spend a little short of two weeks with a beautiful girl in an exciting European and/or Asian locale. Shit is looking up.
(Obligatory Scott Pilgrim: If my life had a face...)
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