Work
Just was musing to myself about where work has taken me and what things it has exposed me to.
I started working for the Federal Aviation Administration back in summer of 1998 as a high school/college hire for experience. Total lackey job, but I met some very cool people, two of which I foresee being lifelong friends. I have learned a lot from them about work and life, usually the lighter side of.
Then after I left school, I was hired by Internet Entertainment Group. I saw an opportunity to work with some really great systems, and some really good people. I worked in a small office of about 20 people, all typing away writing code, working on network systems, while people at a remote facility did things that provided content for the site that I thankfully had to view only when images were broken due to bad code on the site.
I still to this day am asked about that job, usually eliciting some laughs, some gasps, some "......oh okay"-s as well.
Just like being a policeman, working there has strengthened my morality, seeing the seedy side of things, me buckling down and doing my work, WHICH, for most of the 6 months I was there, was building an e-mail system.
Tiring of aspects of the job, including the lack of stability, I decided to move on to greener pastures. Zip, boom, pow, onto LA I go.
I got to travel all over the country, doing installations of media servers and supporting storage systems. Some of the most trying times of my life occurred there, between August of 2000 and July of 2002.
Having seen government, small company, large corporation, and now a respected family-oriented company has been a great learning experience altogether.
I don't regret any of the jobs that I have worked, nor will I ever say that I didn't learn valuable lessons from them.
I started working for the Federal Aviation Administration back in summer of 1998 as a high school/college hire for experience. Total lackey job, but I met some very cool people, two of which I foresee being lifelong friends. I have learned a lot from them about work and life, usually the lighter side of.
Then after I left school, I was hired by Internet Entertainment Group. I saw an opportunity to work with some really great systems, and some really good people. I worked in a small office of about 20 people, all typing away writing code, working on network systems, while people at a remote facility did things that provided content for the site that I thankfully had to view only when images were broken due to bad code on the site.
I still to this day am asked about that job, usually eliciting some laughs, some gasps, some "......oh okay"-s as well.
Just like being a policeman, working there has strengthened my morality, seeing the seedy side of things, me buckling down and doing my work, WHICH, for most of the 6 months I was there, was building an e-mail system.
Tiring of aspects of the job, including the lack of stability, I decided to move on to greener pastures. Zip, boom, pow, onto LA I go.
I got to travel all over the country, doing installations of media servers and supporting storage systems. Some of the most trying times of my life occurred there, between August of 2000 and July of 2002.
Having seen government, small company, large corporation, and now a respected family-oriented company has been a great learning experience altogether.
I don't regret any of the jobs that I have worked, nor will I ever say that I didn't learn valuable lessons from them.