No School, Job Instead
Hey Everyone.
School year is about to start... well not for me, but for a lot of my slightly younger friends. Last night I went to a bonfire with some of them. It was great fun in spite of there being very little fire and very much cold. I saw some great shooting stars and peed in the ocean again. The best part, though, was the Moon Over My Hammy on the ride back... well not really, but it'd be funny if it was.
Today I'm hitting up the city for a sweep through china town and a night at a comedy club. We were going to take the fun BART, but someone doesn't want to talk 5 blocks, so we have to drive :(. I'll never use up my $14.50 BART card! (BART gives you a $16 ticket min if you pay with a $20).
Other than recent events I wanted to record, I think I should blog about my job change. I got a side-motion (same pay, different work) at work. I was conscripted by sales to do their technical support, which will be fun. It'll be easy, but very important/critical work. The pay is, indeed, about the same, but this new job allows for much more rapid career growth. I'm looking forward to it, but that's not my concern.
It's a bit of a dirty job, I think. The reason that I was hand selected out of all of the developers in the company to take this position might not have been my technical prowess. I think it might have something to do with my first language being english, which is actually remarkably remote within the company's diverse development staff. Actually, out of everyone who would want this job I'm getting, I'm the only EFL (kinda like ESL, but backwards).
This does make business sense, in that some guy who works at a potato factory in Boise, ID (one of our real clients) might pick the competitor because their technical sales rep speaks better english, but it does feel a bit funny since It's the first time I've ever been promoted not based solely on my abilities. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.