One Week on the Job
Alright, I've been working now at Raytheon and I just felt it was time to go over how things are going thusfar:
Pros:
1. I'm earning money. (this is huge)
2. I'm on the 9/80 system, meaning I work 9 hours per day m-th, and only work 8 hours on alternating fridays (meaning I get 3 day weekends every other week).
3. Everyone at work is extremely nice, unless they put on a facade for newcomers (which could very well be the case).
4. Most of my fellow 3rd year interns are from UCI, so I'm getting to meet people I could end up having classes with.
5. Raytheon has a nice cafeteria.
6. I get my own cubicle with a computer that has 3 Gigs of ram, which is by far the most I've ever seen on any computer. Not to mention my desk has 6 drawers and 3 overhead bins that I can lock and unlock at my discretion, and lots of walls with pushpins so I can customize as I see fit.
7. Free water (hey...it's good water. I drink 6-8 glasses every day, literally).
8. I got a new raytheon email account...or rather, will be getting one. As of now, only people inside the firewall can email me. I also have my own phone, which is cool I had fun customizing it, but I'm afraid to give out the number for fear of what certain people who read this journal would do once they got it.
9. I get a cool security badge, and get to look at "nato restricted" documents which makes me feel considerably more special than I should be feeling. I mean, these documents in the wrongs hands would be extremely harmful! er, uh...well actually they would be absolutely meaningless, it's all crappy requirements/needs/design documents for a program that no one outside NATO will ever have access to anyway *sigh* and even if they did have access to it, you couldn't learn anything from those documents, believe me I've spent the whole week trying.
Cons:
1. Ok, I had my huge pro, now this is the huge con (and my only serious major gripe about work).
a. Traffic. I sit on the 57 for about 8 miles that ends up taking about 30 minutes every day to and from work. Which sucks, because the 25 mile drive ends up taking around 50 minutes average (there and back). This rounds to about 2 hours of commuting. Fortunately I don't have to sit in traffic on the 57/60 interchange/traffic mess because of my best friend, Grand Ave. I take that all the way south past Mt. Sac to Diamond Bar blvd. which I then take another couple miles south until it finally reaches the 57. If it weren't for this sidestreet route I'm sure the commute would take over an hour each way.
b. I work 9 hours per day, except fridays.
c. I take a 1 hour lunch.
d. I like to sleep for 8 hours.
Alright, for those of you who don't see where I'm going with this, it has to do with my day, and my time. You start out with a 24 hour day. But then it starts chipping away as you can see:
22 hours left after traffic (-2)
14 hours left after sleep (-8)
13 hours left after lunch (-1)
4 hours left after work (-9)
FOUR HOURS! After coming from being a full time student, who MAYBE spends four hours a day in class and doing homework, COMBINED, this is a huge shift. After I get home from work, around 6 each day, I have 4 hours to eat dinner, shower, and then do whatever I do to relax, until I sleep at 10 so I can wake up at 6 to be at work by 7. Ahhh...I miss my carefree youth.
ok..my keyboard's flipping out, this is all for now, I will update later.
Pros:
1. I'm earning money. (this is huge)
2. I'm on the 9/80 system, meaning I work 9 hours per day m-th, and only work 8 hours on alternating fridays (meaning I get 3 day weekends every other week).
3. Everyone at work is extremely nice, unless they put on a facade for newcomers (which could very well be the case).
4. Most of my fellow 3rd year interns are from UCI, so I'm getting to meet people I could end up having classes with.
5. Raytheon has a nice cafeteria.
6. I get my own cubicle with a computer that has 3 Gigs of ram, which is by far the most I've ever seen on any computer. Not to mention my desk has 6 drawers and 3 overhead bins that I can lock and unlock at my discretion, and lots of walls with pushpins so I can customize as I see fit.
7. Free water (hey...it's good water. I drink 6-8 glasses every day, literally).
8. I got a new raytheon email account...or rather, will be getting one. As of now, only people inside the firewall can email me. I also have my own phone, which is cool I had fun customizing it, but I'm afraid to give out the number for fear of what certain people who read this journal would do once they got it.
9. I get a cool security badge, and get to look at "nato restricted" documents which makes me feel considerably more special than I should be feeling. I mean, these documents in the wrongs hands would be extremely harmful! er, uh...well actually they would be absolutely meaningless, it's all crappy requirements/needs/design documents for a program that no one outside NATO will ever have access to anyway *sigh* and even if they did have access to it, you couldn't learn anything from those documents, believe me I've spent the whole week trying.
Cons:
1. Ok, I had my huge pro, now this is the huge con (and my only serious major gripe about work).
a. Traffic. I sit on the 57 for about 8 miles that ends up taking about 30 minutes every day to and from work. Which sucks, because the 25 mile drive ends up taking around 50 minutes average (there and back). This rounds to about 2 hours of commuting. Fortunately I don't have to sit in traffic on the 57/60 interchange/traffic mess because of my best friend, Grand Ave. I take that all the way south past Mt. Sac to Diamond Bar blvd. which I then take another couple miles south until it finally reaches the 57. If it weren't for this sidestreet route I'm sure the commute would take over an hour each way.
b. I work 9 hours per day, except fridays.
c. I take a 1 hour lunch.
d. I like to sleep for 8 hours.
Alright, for those of you who don't see where I'm going with this, it has to do with my day, and my time. You start out with a 24 hour day. But then it starts chipping away as you can see:
22 hours left after traffic (-2)
14 hours left after sleep (-8)
13 hours left after lunch (-1)
4 hours left after work (-9)
FOUR HOURS! After coming from being a full time student, who MAYBE spends four hours a day in class and doing homework, COMBINED, this is a huge shift. After I get home from work, around 6 each day, I have 4 hours to eat dinner, shower, and then do whatever I do to relax, until I sleep at 10 so I can wake up at 6 to be at work by 7. Ahhh...I miss my carefree youth.
ok..my keyboard's flipping out, this is all for now, I will update later.