How's work been?

charlemagne wrote:
charlemagne wrote:
charlemagne wrote:

Submitted a job application yesterday. I like where I am now, but this would be both a promotion and an ongoing position (currently on contract) so I feel like I need to go for it. The person in charge of the hiring process emailed me towards the end of last week to check I was going to apply, so that's a good sign hopefully!

Got an interview!

Interview went well enough that I got a call back 4 hours later saying they were very impressed and going to go the next stage (calling my references).

Got the job!

charlemagne wrote:
charlemagne wrote:
charlemagne wrote:
charlemagne wrote:

Submitted a job application yesterday. I like where I am now, but this would be both a promotion and an ongoing position (currently on contract) so I feel like I need to go for it. The person in charge of the hiring process emailed me towards the end of last week to check I was going to apply, so that's a good sign hopefully!

Got an interview!

Interview went well enough that I got a call back 4 hours later saying they were very impressed and going to go the next stage (calling my references).

Got the job!

Congrats!!!

bighoppa wrote:

The Director of Datacenter Operations that I've butted heads with for years, and who had personally made it his mission to make sure I didn't get hired within the datacenter despite the actual team managers asking me to apply for several jobs over the years, was fired and walked out of the building a couple of months ago. My old boss took over the position. He's encouraged me to keep an eye on postings and apply for anything that looked interesting to me. I think next year is going to be very exciting!

Was informed a few hours ago that the position they wanted me for posted. Cleaned up the resume (for the fourth time in the last few weeks) and applied. I feel all woozy!

bighoppa wrote:
bighoppa wrote:

The Director of Datacenter Operations that I've butted heads with for years, and who had personally made it his mission to make sure I didn't get hired within the datacenter despite the actual team managers asking me to apply for several jobs over the years, was fired and walked out of the building a couple of months ago. My old boss took over the position. He's encouraged me to keep an eye on postings and apply for anything that looked interesting to me. I think next year is going to be very exciting!

Was informed a few hours ago that the position they wanted me for posted. Cleaned up the resume (for the fourth time in the last few weeks) and applied. I feel all woozy!

You got this buddy!

I’m a contract worker. Had an interview with my boss for the one non-contract positioned that opened up. I’m 99.9% sure I’ll be remaining a contract worker.

Bummer. Although I think it is weird to have an interview with your boss. What could an interview tell them that they don’t already know from working with you every day?

jrralls wrote:

Have you ever had a job where you were happy with the training you received to do the job?

Lifeguard.

jrralls wrote:

Have you ever had a job where you were happy with the training you received to do the job?

Yes, in wildlife rehabilitation.

Got an email from my boss's boss's boss Friday after I'd left. He has an opportunity he wants to talk to me about and it has to be tomorrow at the latest. He has an All Hands on Tuesday with his boss too. They've previously announced a re-org, but it is focused a couple levels above me.

I've spent all weekend wildly speculating about what it could be. I really have no clue. Could be anything. I have so many irons in the fire, that it could be any of them, something re-org related, or something totally different.

I'll find out in about 9 hours when we meet.

kaostheory wrote:

Got an email from my boss's boss's boss Friday after I'd left. He has an opportunity he wants to talk to me about and it has to be tomorrow at the latest. He has an All Hands on Tuesday with his boss too. They've previously announced a re-org, but it is focused a couple levels above me.

I've spent all weekend wildly speculating about what it could be. I really have no clue. Could be anything. I have so many irons in the fire, that it could be any of them, something re-org related, or something totally different.

I'll find out in about 9 hours when we meet.

Keep us posted! Excited for you!

Good luck!

Why do bosses amp folks up right before the weekend with no context? My boss is great and never does this!

Still TBD the great-great-grand boss broke his ankle over the weekend and won't be at the Town Hall tomorrow. So my great-grand boss didn't know if he will be announcing the re-org or not.

Potentially, he will be consolidating some similar work from across the site under a single group, and "asked" me to run it.

It's all still a bit up in the air. I'm curious if tomorrow my name will show up on the org chart or if this will never actually materialize.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: It was announced today. I went from 8 direct reports to 6 direct and 59 indirect reports. (Holy sh*t, this job is a lot bigger than I thought...)

Whoa. Congratulations, Kaos!

You're in it now, man!

NOICE!!!

kaostheory wrote:

Still TBD the great-great-grand boss broke his ankle over the weekend and won't be at the Town Hall tomorrow. So my great-grand boss didn't know if he will be announcing the re-org or not.

Potentially, he will be consolidating some similar work from across the site under a single group, and "asked" me to run it.

It's all still a bit up in the air. I'm curious if tomorrow my name will show up on the org chart or if this will never actually materialize.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: It was announced today. I went from 8 direct reports to 6 direct and 59 indirect reports. (Holy sh*t, this job is a lot bigger than I thought...)

Congrats Kaos. That's a big plate!

LeapingGnome wrote:

Bummer. Although I think it is weird to have an interview with your boss. What could an interview tell them that they don’t already know from working with you every day?

It felt super weird. He ended up asking me a bunch of technical questions that so far haven’t been relevant to me doing my job and that I couldn’t answer well / at all.

Got an interview for the new job on Friday. Fingers crossed.

I found out last night that I was selected for training in Aerospace Medicine, so while I'll still pursue a commercial's pilot's license while I'm in training, I'll put my commercial pilot plans on hold for a few years. This program will net me one and possibly two board certifications, a Masters in Public Health to add to my medical doctorate, and an FAA Medical Examiner's certification. I'll get some time at NASA, along with a raft of Wilderness Medicine, Tropical Medicine, and other operational stuff. All of that adds up to a fairly broad range of expertise and experience that should let me land relatively softly wherever my wife and I end up. At the very least, I should be useful to some warlord if the world collapses into a Mad Max wasteland.

Coldstream wrote:

I found out last night that I was selected for training in Aerospace Medicine, so while I'll still pursue a commercial's pilot's license while I'm in training, I'll put my commercial pilot plans on hold for a few years. This program will net me one and possibly two board certifications, a Masters in Public Health to add to my medical doctorate, and an FAA Medical Examiner's certification. I'll get some time at NASA, along with a raft of Wilderness Medicine, Tropical Medicine, and other operational stuff. All of that adds up to a fairly broad range of expertise and experience that should let me land relatively softly wherever my wife and I end up. At the very least, I should be useful to some warlord if the world collapses into a Mad Max wasteland.

Fess up. This is you, isn't it?

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After a fruitless 6-month search for IT work I've decided I'm ending my roughly 20-year IT career to do... something else. The idea of reinventing myself at 49 is both oddly appealing and terrifying but... here we go.

Jonman wrote:

Fess up. This is you, isn't it?

You know it's me. You're the one who helped me eat the snake.

Jow wrote:

After a fruitless 6-month search for IT work I've decided I'm ending my roughly 20-year IT career to do... something else. The idea of reinventing myself at 49 is both oddly appealing and terrifying but... here we go.

I'm right at 20 years in IT, too. Honestly, the idea of doing something else is very appealing to me. I really don't want to be on call and managing production infrastructure outages any more.

Good luck, and take this as an opportunity to do something you will love.

bighoppa wrote:

Got an interview for the new job on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Nailed the interview. Got the job. Just waiting to see what the salary offer is.

bighoppa wrote:
bighoppa wrote:

Got an interview for the new job on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Nailed the interview. Got the job. Just waiting to see what the salary offer is. :)

Congrats!!

bighoppa wrote:
bighoppa wrote:

Got an interview for the new job on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Nailed the interview. Got the job. Just waiting to see what the salary offer is. :)

Congratulations!

bighoppa wrote:
bighoppa wrote:

Got an interview for the new job on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Nailed the interview. Got the job. Just waiting to see what the salary offer is. :)

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In a bit of irony, the CCPA is causing our company to collect more data on some of our users. We offer some free versions of some of our product's, which until the end of the year can be downloaded by anyone. However if CCPA requests come that end up in deleting any of the data in newer versions of those free products, we are required to notify everyone who has ever downloaded them of the change, so that they too will delete old versions. Our lawyers take is that everyone who downloads those free things now needs to create an account with us that includes at least an email address, so that we can provide notifications. Right now there are 31,152 mentions of the URL to download the free stuff on GitHub, so we can kind of assume a lot of things are about to break. Fun!

ThatGuy42 wrote:
Jow wrote:

After a fruitless 6-month search for IT work I've decided I'm ending my roughly 20-year IT career to do... something else. The idea of reinventing myself at 49 is both oddly appealing and terrifying but... here we go.

I'm right at 20 years in IT, too. Honestly, the idea of doing something else is very appealing to me. I really don't want to be on call and managing production infrastructure outages any more.

Good luck, and take this as an opportunity to do something you will love.

I also feel this. I spent a good ~17 years serving in an oncall / production environment, and moved into an engineering role with a large company back in 2017. That job, while awesome, seems to have come with a different set of political traps and hurdles that are frustrating in their own way (2nd reorg this year).

My wife and I effected a move to a moderately remote location in 2018 entirely because the job was 100% WFH. We gave it a year to see if things seemed stable, and once that year had passed, we moved. Now, 2 reorgs! If I was to lose the job I currently have, things would get very tight, very quickly.

I know that I don't really want to EVER go back to a production 24x7x365 type environment. Adding to that, I am not entirely sure that I want to spend another 20+ years doing IT related work. It's what I know, though. No college degree, no formal certs, etc. It seems a bit daunting to realize I've got as much work ahead of me as I do behind me.

I got laid off today.

On the one hand, it kinda hurts.

On the other, OMFG!! did I hate this job, and honestly this is probably the best thing that could happen to me. The thought of not having to go back to it on January 6th is probably the best Christmas gift I could possibly hope for.

So glad I have plenty of FU money.

bobbywatson wrote:

I got laid off today.

On the one hand, it kinda hurts.

On the other, OMFG!! did I hate this job, and honestly this is probably the best thing that could happen to me. The thought of not having to go back to it on January 6th is probably the best Christmas gift I could possibly hope for.

So glad I have plenty of FU money.

Congratulations! I know in one of my previous jobs, I often prayed to be laid off and it never happened, and I finally did have to quit. Now you can move on to something bigger and better!