First Week
I've wrapped up my first week at the new job. I received my new company issued laptop on Thursday. Just in time to realize my old laptop was dying the slow and painful death of a hard drive failure. I have had time to back it up, but now I'll have to replace it.
It was a confusing couple of days as I tried to wrap my mind around the product and all the changes that where going on. It took me quite a while to get set up started. By Friday I started understanding the system well enough to point out areas that could be improved. I'm working long distance with several people out of Arkansas. They were supposed to be in town this week to train me up on the system. I never heard what happened, but they never showed up. It's just as well it gave me a chance to figure things out. Now when they do come I can ask more intelligent questions.
It's nice that it's only 12 minutes door to door. I don't have my permanent spot yet because the cubicles haven't been built. For the time being, I'm in an office away from all the other developers. The building is quite amusing. It's in a big tin shed that's been built out for office space. Across the street is a field and next door are a bunch of cows. Not exactly where you'd expect to find a thriving software company, but they apparently have more work than they can handle. They have already talked about sending me out to Florida at the end of June to meet with some customers as a technical representative.
It took until Thursday night, but I started getting excited about the new job. I look forward to the possibilities. I come home and now instead of being absolutely wiped out, I want to get back on the computer and work some more. I want to figure out everything that has to do with the project. I'm back to being a dork and excited about it.
