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da ([personal profile] da) wrote2006-11-10 12:41 pm
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New Job

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.]

[identity profile] quingawaga.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Congrats!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

(little happy dance)

[identity profile] dawn-guy.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, HR hardly jerked you around at all.

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

[identity profile] nobodyhere.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] nobodyhere.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was just the paper stubs they were misdirecting so no actual money was involved.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

Wow, HR hardly jerked you around at all.

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

[identity profile] nobodyhere.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! :D

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] bats22.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Woo hoo! Congratulations!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

& thanks for the humidifier advice, too!

[identity profile] dcseain.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] mynatt.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
congrats :)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] whynotsteve.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! Nice to not have to go through any more interviews :-)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! Darn right, that's possibly the best part.

[identity profile] pekmez.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] ketzie.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Congrats!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] pnijjar.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That's excellent. You're a sysadmin/programming rockstar! I'm glad you're finally getting a little job stability.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] dr-tectonic.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah! Congrats.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] cypherpunk95.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the new job!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] says-simon.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Now you won't have to contemplate a change in transportation methods!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! ...amusingly, we'll probably end up with a car-pass for the University this winter, but I can cope with carpooling.

[identity profile] metalana.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
permanent is the best part, eh? good for you!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] bryree.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Woot! Congrats.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! W00t

[identity profile] sulle-stelle.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] zanate.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-11 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] earthling177.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, congratulations! (And yes, I'm catching up from 6 days without reading LJ, why do you ask? ;-) )

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, welcome back!

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

[identity profile] earthling177.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ;-)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ;)

[identity profile] widgetfox.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! *is thrilled*

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
:)

Thanks!