Awesomeist Key Chain EVAR!!

I have always loved Thinkgeek.com because they supply me with anything my little geek heart desires, but I really love them now for supplying this lovely key chain:

Oh that's right, you're seeing it correctly, it's a never ending packing bubble popper key chain. Just imagine that feeling you get when you're popping those teeny little bubbles and just multiply that by infinity! Now you can pop away without that annoying feeling of sadness you get when you actually finish a sheet.

New Job Happiness and Sidebar Additions

Well, today went well at my new job. I got a chance to meet everyone and to get acquainted with how everything is done at this new place. I also got to see how much of a difference it makes when your boss values you and actually wants you around. "Party...bonus..."

It's like night and day when you compare where I work now to where I used to work, I'm so happy and have already started working on projects even though I was only there for a day. I really hope this happiness continues, but I imagine that it will turn into a "job" in no time. However, that would be a good thing, now that I think of it.

I like the normal job stress and I miss it; the annoying calls from contractors trying to clarify already over clarified instructions, architect's changing their minds yet again on building materials and building sections, the boss calling me on the weekend because he needs clarification on something or needs my help on something else...These make me feel like I'm a part of something, that I'm actually contributing to my job and and that I'm making a difference somehow. I think all engineers define themselves by how much stress they must endure because more stress equals more responsibility and how important you are to have around. So I welcome the job stress again because it means that I'm actually an employee.

:-)

And also, because there's no firewall at this place, I can now use my Last.fm and actually share all the music I listen to on the regular. This past summer I've added more bands and groups to my rotation because of exposure from wonderful mix CD's I've received from friends abroad as well as finally picking up CD's I've been dying to get into for the longest time. So you'll see my track listing appear on the sidebar, as it once did.

So I get to brag about my music again, finally...

New Job Jitters & Old Job Reflection

I start my new job tomorrow and the jitters have finally started to hit me, it being the day before and all.

I just hope this one goes well, I'm sick and tired of being home and not earning any money as well as not doing any actual engineering. I mean, it was great to get that massive severance check(s) and it did allow me to pay off some bills and stay afloat for a while, but I was never one to lay around idly. I've been working since I was 16 years old, so it was quite alien for me to just be at home with no prospect of a job to look forward too. Now a vacation from a job is another thing, those are great mostly because you know that you have a job to go back too. That's the difference.

Also, with the sh*t storm that happened at my previous job, I just want this one to go successfully. As I found out from anonymous sources, I was pretty much just a female statistic for my previous company, and the powers (or really power) that be at my branch was looking for excuses to get rid of me. No matter how good a job I did this one person always had something to say against it and this person finally found a way to drive me out of that branch. It got to the point where I would notice some of my calculations had been changed and I wasn't being given the right due dates for projects.

I'm not meant for that type of environment. I just want to come in and do the best I can at my job. I don't have the capacity to compete or backstab at my place of employment. I'm a simple girl that feels I should be able to trust (at least to some extent) my coworkers and that we're all in this together and we all need to do our best to get out our projects.

Agendas can be a horrible thing, and maybe I should have questioned how quick I was hired at this place and how they neglected to call up my references. And perhaps I should have went over someone's head and explained why I wasn't being given any work and why projects that I had been working on where being taken away from me.

Some people have antiquated ways of thinking and know the loop holes to use in order to get away with it. But at least I know that I'm still a good engineer and that's something that someone at my old branch will never be able to take away from me.

All the hush money in the world won't let me go quietly either, but thanks for cutting those checks anyway.

Fashion PSA

Tights are not pants!

That is all.

I am officially Twittered

Well it's official, I finally joined Twitter! Now I can update my whereabouts from my cellphone and in one sentence chunks of goodness. I put it on my sidebar just to test it out for now, so you'll have to go back to the homepage to see it if you are RSSing me.

I AM EMPLOYED!

The Employment Gods have shone their green lights down unto me, for I am now employed with the engineering firm up in the valley of this fair state of Connecticut.

I'll be starting the Monday after Turkey Gorging Day! *gobble gobble gobble*

The Job Front

After being in the trenches for 2 weeks, a cease fire has been issued for at least this week.

I have been offered a job up in the valley and am waiting on a decision from another engineering firm along the coast. Both are great firms, both want to give me more money than what I was making before, but that's where the similarities end.

If you know anything about the fair state of Connecticut you know that depending on where you live and where you have to get too there is either a highway of some sort to take or you can hop on Metro-North. Now both firms would require the same amount of transit time, but each would require a different mode of transportation. The one up in the valley would simply be a 40 minute drive, the one along the shore would be a 30 minute train ride or an insane, bumper to bumper hour long commute on I-95 Southbound. (Nooooo, not I-95 South....AHHHHHH!!!!)

And I can't do anything yet until I get the call from the coastline firm, so I'm up in the air. Damn it, why can't people make on the spot employment decisions!!?? /sarcasm

Jimi, why did you make this?

I think I just died a little on the inside...

You're Kidding Me, Right...

I just remembered I had this picture in my cellphone. This is from a recent sojourn down to Manhattan to visit a friend and we were taking one of the late, late, subways home for the night.

Moral of the story: No matter how drunk you are or how tired you may be, never fall asleep on a subway platform, not unless you want to be camera fodder. At least wait and have the decency to pass out on the train like normal people do. Jees...

Job Hunting and Halloweening

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time, jees...

Well, the quick version is that I'm looking for a new job which has eaten up most of my time and I've been busy with Halloween shenanigans.

I know that's a piddly poor post, but I'll update when I get some time to clear my head and actually write something worth reading.

I leave you with the knowledge that Target is a great motivator and little stuffed turkeys are very cute especially when placed on top of your TV.

That is all for now...