Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Finally, a start date

It has taken a while, but I finally have a start date. June 10th will be my first day at Boeing. I would have started on May 27th, but my boss here at my contract job asked me to stay on longer because we are having a code release to production on June 3rd and they need me to be around to help fix production bugs. He also asked if I wanted to come on full time, which was a really nice thing to hear. I decided to stick with the Boeing job though, because I really want to get back into the networking and systems side of IT. I am looking forward to it, but also unsure of how I will be able to handle the commute. The job is down in Kent, WA and we live up on the north end in Bothell. My wife has done the commute for a while now, but I am not that fond of traffic. We will see how it goes and if we need to move further sound as the next few months progress. We will be able to commute together tho, which will be nice.
I am also a little nervous because I am jumping back into to a field that I have not spent a lot of time in during the past several years. I have been a web developer now for 5+ years with networking and systems work as a side item both for work and as a hobby and I have gotten a little rusty. I have really enjoyed the contract job that I have been at recently because I feel I have a great grasp on the technologies and the ppl I work with are really impressed with my knowledge and capabilities. With the Boeing job I will be jumping back a few steps and be the learner in a sense....which will be interesting. I have been used to helping other ppl get going and understand things about the project we are working on here currently and it will be an odd switch to be on the other side of that for a while with this new job. I am sure I will do fine, I am just nervous.

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