It's M

[cjsmith]

I show up tomorrow (Monday) morning at 9:30 at Company M to sign papers. I begin work immediately.

If there are no surprises Monday morning, I'll also immediately start notifying everyone who has my resume. (The faint-but-never-zero possibility of surprises in the printed offer is why this entry is friendslocked for now.)

This ends the Life Ick. I will now be spotty about keeping up with LJ for other reasons, namely a new job!

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Job good. Life ick bad. Spotty LJ-upkeep liveable.

Yay! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

CJ content. :-)

[shadopanther.livejournal.com]

May any surprises be GOOD ones for you. Congrats!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) Exciting!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new gig!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm excited!

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

This ends the Life Ick



I will now be spotty about keeping up with LJ for other reasons



namely a new job!

That's worth it. I hope this turns out to be the best job you've ever had!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Fingers crossed! :-)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) PHEW, it's DONE. :)

[ken_r]

Yay! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Hope it's as fun as it looked during the interview!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Congratulations -- I hope you like it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope so too!

[ohhjuliet.livejournal.com]

CJ, congrats!

Let the new adventure begin!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll post about the joys and fun times of a teeny tiny company!

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Sounds like you considered all the information you had and made a good decision about which way to go. That must go some way toward putting the LifeIck behind you...

Woohoo!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Ya gotta love anyplace that gives you margaritas during the interview. (Well, ok, after. They have a Thursday evening happy-hour sort of thing.)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

congrat on the job! that's wonderful news!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Do I get the second congrat when I survive my first day? ;-) (teasing. Since they're usually plural for some reason.)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

yay - congrats :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Any more comments about particularly small companies are very welcome.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I bet it feels really good to have made a decision. Now you have challenge & adventure! I hope it is exciting & fun & remunerative. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It sure does. I'm immensely relieved about that part. And thanks for the good wishes! Fingers crossed for the right level of challenge!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's a relief to have the decision MADE.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

congrats! so which was harder, the interview, or making the decision? :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The decision. The interview had a string-manipulation problem ("code that in whatever language you like") and even in C where you'd have to think about strings it wasn't hard. (Harder than the interview at V though. They made me code a first-in-first-out sort of data structure based on an array. Actually worrisomely easy.)

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, may it be everything you hope for!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's looking wonderful so far. I'll un-friends-lock this and write another post in a moment.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm glad you're settled with it now, and can relax. Yay-yay-yay for the ending of the Life Ick!!!

(belated congrats since I've fallen quite behind in my LJ-reading...)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just got a DO NOT RELAX NOW message, of course. Remember how I don't know *squat* about the stuff this company is doing? Or maybe you don't, 'cause I didn't say. Well, zero zip zilch. They see a smart generalist and they want the smart generalist, and me I'm buying books and looking up acronyms in Wikipedia left and right.

Now they might, if they figure out how to reshuffle people, want me to *lead* a good third of it.

I have a job... and the only prescription is more caffeine... :-)

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I hope the job is going wonderfully!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Yeah! You weren't out that long which is good :)