New Job

[da]

I got the Kinesiology job! I'm starting in two weeks.

On my third interview today, they showed me four labs. One is being used for a blood-flow study for the European Space Agency and NASA! My involvement with that lab is likely very low. But still, very cool. Another lab has servo-controlled back-joints, to test joint stress through regular, repeated motion. It's likely I'll be working on that.

What a load off my mind. The timing was... weird, but hey, I'll take it.

This will take some time to sink in, I think.

[Edit: Non-friends-locked job description here.]

Comments

[quingawaga.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

(little happy dance)

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

Wow, HR hardly jerked you around at all.

Congratulations and good fortune. I know Dave and his crew will miss you.

[nobodyhere.livejournal.com]

Heh, wait until his pay stub goes to his old department for the next 2 years (as mine did, despite repeated requests from my old manager to send it to the right place).

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh. You worked for the University too? ;)

I guess this is why auto-deposit is a good thing. Easier to verify.

Oh, gods. I probably need to re-apply for that. Hm.

I'll still require they give me paper pay-stubs though.

[nobodyhere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was just the paper stubs they were misdirecting so no actual money was involved.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Wow, HR hardly jerked you around at all.

The hr person was even off-campus at a conference when she called me. :)

[nobodyhere.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :D

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bats22.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Congratulations!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

& thanks for the humidifier advice, too!

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

congrats :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[whynotsteve.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Nice to not have to go through any more interviews :-)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Darn right, that's possibly the best part.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ketzie.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[pnijjar.livejournal.com]

That's excellent. You're a sysadmin/programming rockstar! I'm glad you're finally getting a little job stability.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

That's got to be the first time I've been confused for a rockstar. Gotta get those glasses cleaned, methinks.

Hopefully, about the unstability.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Congrats.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[cypherpunk95.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[says-simon.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Now you won't have to contemplate a change in transportation methods!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ...amusingly, we'll probably end up with a car-pass for the University this winter, but I can cope with carpooling.

[metalana.livejournal.com]

permanent is the best part, eh? good for you!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Woot! Congrats.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks! W00t

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

Now, if it were me, I would be planning somewhere nice to go out to eat to spend some of that first paycheck. (Because, ultimately, for me, it all gets back to food.... ;-)

It sounds like an interesting job!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

ha ha.

...We planned to go to a new hispanic hole-in-the-wall, but they were playing loud mariachi music so we went to our favourite sushi restaurant.

thanks!

[zanate.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! It worked out!

Despite its lateness, I'm adding this anyway because you seem to be obsessively thanking everybody and it amuses me to make you work.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Thanks.

obsessively thanking everybody and it amuses me to make you work.

Pbtbtbtbt!

My mom taught me to be polite. ;)

Besides, it's not late, it's early.

Though, I figure the number of people who will come along later and read this is not so high.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Yay, congratulations! (And yes, I'm catching up from 6 days without reading LJ, why do you ask? ;-) )

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks, welcome back!

Were you travelling, or just on a computer-sabbatical? :)

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, neither.

Mostly I was just sucked into political threads in another website, which ended up with not only loads of people posting loads of stuff, but I eventually posted to the threads too. While I'm sometimes tempted to "spread the joy" and post my rant(s) (and trust me, 36KB messages are usually rants) here, I have so far resisted, which is probably for the best. Today I'm only 150 posts behind on LJ. I'll catch up in a day or so. ;-)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Er, wow. 36KB text sure sounds like they might be rants. ...if you want to post rants on your journal, I say go ahead, it's your journal after all. ...though, putting 36k behind a cut might be a good idea. ;)

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! *is thrilled*

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

:)

Thanks!