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Code monkey go to job
I haven't been keeping up with this journal much since my life derailed a year and a half ago, but things are going well and my life has been steadily getting back on track in most respects. Most exciting of all, I have a real job now. That's right, I have set aside my PhD program and accepted a position as a corporate peon.
Specifically, I am a software developer for athenahealth, a technology company in the health care sector which provides cloud-based software solutions to medical practices. I'm a member of the release engineering team, which means that, rather than working on the software that is the company's product, I work on internal tools and systems used to test the software and roll out new versions of it as they become ready.
I've been working for Athena (I do love saying that, but I'm not going to get into the current state of my made-up religion in this post ;-) since the beginning of October. I neglected to mention this at the time because I wasn't sure what to say and I wasn't sure if the job was really going to stick. I've occasionally had to pinch myself to make sure it's real. But just today I had my three-months-in performance review with my manager, and it went very well. So I guess this is for real. Yaaaaaaaaaay!!!
Specifically, I am a software developer for athenahealth, a technology company in the health care sector which provides cloud-based software solutions to medical practices. I'm a member of the release engineering team, which means that, rather than working on the software that is the company's product, I work on internal tools and systems used to test the software and roll out new versions of it as they become ready.
I've been working for Athena (I do love saying that, but I'm not going to get into the current state of my made-up religion in this post ;-) since the beginning of October. I neglected to mention this at the time because I wasn't sure what to say and I wasn't sure if the job was really going to stick. I've occasionally had to pinch myself to make sure it's real. But just today I had my three-months-in performance review with my manager, and it went very well. So I guess this is for real. Yaaaaaaaaaay!!!
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ahem
Uh, that is all.
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Also hi! And I love you! And it's nice to hear from you!
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More on the status of your religion in another post, maybe? Always interesting food for thought.
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I am very glad your new job is going well, and may "working for Athena" be fulfilling and renumerative!
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I'm sorry I've been so out of touch. Perhaps we're both in better places and can start to rectify that.
Also, I now own a house (in Montague Mass) well-suited for house concerts. I'd love to have you visit and give one sometime this winter/spring if we can work that out.
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It's so great to see you posting here again, and yay for gainful employment!!
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(Please send some job mojo this way!)
(Hey, are they hiring people for non code monkey positions? I could have boring meetings with boring manager Rob!)
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(Anonymous) 2013-05-22 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)I've just read an *outstanding* analysis paper entitled Dennett's Consciousness Explained: Its Critics, and the Controversy over the "True Natue" of Consciousness. The author is only given as Benjamin Newman, Swarthmore College. Would that be you? If so, congratulations on some really nice work.
Jim Gregoric
james.gregoric@childrens.harvard.edu
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