start all over again
Three days, and I'm pleased to report the new job is going well. My coworkers are cool, I'm picking up the product lines with relative ease, and they're amazed at the stuff I can get their Agile server to do. My remote boss, Anil, is already talking about bringing me out to the Seattle office for a visit
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Sweet new machine... too bad they didn't give you a slick laptop. 1TB of user space... now what the hell are you going to stuff in there anyway? Hell, I ALMOST have 1TB of total storage here in the basement, and well, 95% of what I have on my drives SHOULD NOT be stored on a company server! ;-)
So how is the whole "defining your own role" part working out? I knew that that could either be awesome, or really crappy, depending on how things played out and how much freedom you're actually given. Hope it's working?
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I didn't want a laptop. Laptop==travel in corporate-speak. I will get to travel- quarterly, it's looking, to the mothership (Seattle) and to our contract manufacturer (currently in Colorado, but we're sourcing a new CM in Toronto that's looking promising), but typically only director-level and higher and salescritters get laptops. I get the engineering level of disk space because I deal with electrical layouts like gerbers and ASIC files for custom PCBs, and those suckers are huge.
No comment yet on the defining-the-role part; we're all still getting used to each other, and I'm not stupid enough to push too hard right away. Let them get used to me and how I work, *then* start in with suggestions.
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I'm glad things are going well for you so far
my housemate got a new job that she hates and ended up leaving after a month and got another job, so I'm glad to hear that you aren't suffering
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