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{ 01:19, 2007-Nov-12 } { 1 comments } { Link }

I started work about a week after I moved up here. I'm really glad I took this job. I'm so spoiled by work, compared to what I'm used to, that I don't think I'll ever be able to leave.

I'm not doing much work yet since I'm still really new and don't know how to do a lot of things. I spent my first month in a Designer Development Group. It was to gain general knowledge on the software I'll be using. The class was in Everett, about 25 miles north for me, and it turned out to be an hour drive there and back, at least, each day. I'm glad that class is over. I met one or two people there, but still- that drive sucked. I'm still going to classes every few weeks here, but they're closer and they're more centered on what my actual job is. I'll be going to these classes for a few more months until I learn a lot more about how airplanes work.

After that month I got assigned with my team. I work on Product Development. My team does Configuration and Engineering Analysis. I have personalized stationary, haha. I got picked for this team because of my resume, they said that out of the few hundred resumes they recieved from the Designer Development Group mine was the only one that got picked by three leads, independantly, so they decided to go with me. Pretty cool, I guess all that bull-shitting finally payed off! My team is really great, really layed back- all of the other teams aren't and the friends I made in the Designer Development Group say they're constantly busy and working overtime every week. We don't have overtime in my office. There's no need for it. We do our little projects and everything works out. Low stress- can't complain with that. We're "inventors", all of our work consists of coming up with and designing new ideas to improve the planes, so there's really not a lot of deadlines. It's nice, really nice.

On top of that my boss is really great. He doesn't care when we work, how we work, anything like that, just that we're here (or working somehwere anyway) 40 hours a week (not 8 hours a day), and that nobody is complaining about us not doing our work. We get to come in when we want, if we want to leave early we can make up the rest of the day's hours some other time that week, we can take a five hour lunch and come back to finish work later, it's all good. We have to be at our meetings, but that's about it really. Then there's my co-workers, who are all very cool. We talk a lot and play with our little nerf footballs and basketballs, it's good. The guys in my cube are all older than me (okay, everyone is older than me), and they're sarcastic, always ripping on people and having a laugh- in a good way, kind of like hanging out with friends.

I've only got one complaint about this job, and that's the parking. The parking is rediculous. It's nearly a mile from the parking lot to the office, and then you'll get a bad spot anyway just to make the walk extra long. It's chilly on that long walk. There's these covered walkways that lead all the way to the office I'm in, but I'm not sure why because when it is raining it's also windy. The wind just blows the rain right through them, you get wet anyway. I don't mind the parking situation much at all though, it's nice when it's not wet.

I live so close to here that I could walk. I want to walk, but my timing is off all the time. Every morning I want to walk it's just raining down like something crazy. The weather is pretty unpredictable, to me anyway- I'm not good at judging it yet. Seriously, if the cloud cover looked like this in Phoenix everyday, it would also rain in Phoenix everyday. There's clouds that always look like they're going to start raining on you, but then they don't here- that's the part I don't get. It's like a trick I haven't caught on to yet.

But all in all, yes, my job is good. I'm spoiled and it would be hard to ever leave. On top of all that good stuff the sick days and vacation days are great, there's a 10 day paid holiday at Christmas time, they pay for whatever schooling I could imagine, they pay well in general and... is that it? I think that's it... well, and I get cool stationary, but ya, that's it, haha.
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{ 05:48, 2007-Nov-12 } { Posted by LauriesAsylum }
Yay for the cool stationary! You should send notes to your friends and family in AZ on them. Show off a little.:)

Dang, your job sounds awesome! I think if you like and are happy at your job, what more could you ask for? I mean after all, that's where you're going to be spending most of your time.

How is your family coping with you being gone?

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