Job.
October 1st, 2004 | by john |My estimate about finding a job within about a month of being laid off by my previous employer was right.
Went into the office to interview on Wednesday and by Friday, everything has been decided and I told them I’ll be working for them. The pay is okay but a little below what I expected… but maybe I had high expectations.
I’ll be working in downtown Atlanta, like maybe a five minute walk from the Omni Hotel and CNN center but like 10 minute drive from school. I’m rather excited about working again, it’s similar to the job I had before except I actually work at the office during the weekends and work couple hours everyday during the weekday from my apartment. I love this kind of work, especially because of my interest with linux servers and my wanting to learn more and more about them. Of course, this isn’t the kind of job that people expect a computer engineering student to go into… but then again, I’ve never wanted to work for companies that we are expected to want to work for. Actually, I’ve mentioned this before, but I want to either work for a small firm or start up my own.
So there are multiple reasons why I decided to accept this job:
1) Money – I need the money or else, I’ll be broke in about another month.
2) Tuition – Yea so, there seems to be a high possibility of a tuition hike for the spring semester and the following fall semester.
3) Experience – The 1.5 years I’ve worked my previous job, it seems to have given me a fair share of experience in this industry but there are still more than enough things to learn.
4) School – I get so sick of thinking about school and grades that I need a break from school. If I wasn’t doing anything during the weekends, I’d certainly have school in the back of my mind all the time. I’d hate it. Working a peaceful job during the weekend gives me a break from Tech.
