New Job

Well my "special secret" I mentioned a while back was that I was in search of a new job. I didn't want to be to blatant about it and cause a problem for myself at work. My manager would have been good about it, but there were other people there that I wouldn't have trusted quite so much.

So I am now a Senior Software Developer at a small company in Golden Valley. I won't mention their name here. Hee hee...I doubt I'd get in trouble, and am a firm believer in my right to free speech, but they are small enough that I'd hate to have them associated with my sometimes raunchy comments and commentary on here.

Compared to driving from Eagan to Bloomington in 15-25 minutes, depending on the time of day, the new commute is 30-45 minutes. Ouch!! But if I leave by 7, it seems I can get there by 7:30-7:35 am most days. Again, yikes...I'm not a morning person, but saving myself 20-30 minutes of commute time a day is a good incentive to drag my tired ass out of bed. We'll see. If it's looking like it's for the long haul come this spring, and if the commute proves to be a sticking point, I may move to Edina this winter to be closer to work.

Moving from a gigantic corporation with probably 20,000+ employees worldwide and probably 2,000 or more in the Twin Cities to a company with a dozen people is going to be an adjustment. I probably won't be flying out to conferences and classes all over the country every year. Benefits are almost nonexistant since they're so new (they are looking into getting benefits packages in 2006), and myriad small things. But on the other hand, they seem like a fairly close-knit group dedicated to what they're doing. And I feel like what I will be doing will have a HUGE impact. Not a feeling I had at all the last 6 months of my old job. Plus after 6 years with the same company and nowhere to advance to, I needed both a job and a career move. It was just plain time.

Anyway, I'm off. Later poopsmacks.