An unexpected oppurtunity.

This post is long overdue, I really should have had this news up a long time ago... but here it is.

February 11th, I'm at my job with HP doing the whole printer testing thing. I'm hating the hours but it is an extremely low stress job and things are going well for me. I wake up that morning to a phone call, it's from a company I interviewed for as an IT Technician - Network Ops d00d back in October/November. I hadn't heard from the company for so long that I just forgot about them. Anyway, they ask me if I'm still interested in the position. What I remember of it was that they offered a lot higher salary range than what I was currently making so I said "Sure"

That afternoon, after I had already left to go to work, they give my wife a call and arrange for a 2nd interview the next morning. I arrive at the interview ready for a beating. Well, it was extremely mild beating. I almost felt as if the interview was really more of a formality than a real interview. Either way, I was happy about it when I left. They asked me what my salary requirements would be and I offered them what I thought to be a pretty high asking salary for a Jr Network Engineer.

Tuesday afternoon, 10 minutes before I'm walking out the door to work, I get the phone call. They offer me the job, and they offered me the top end of the $2k salary I requested. I guess I didn't ask for enough money. Naturally, I accepted the job even though now I will have to pay Oregon state income taxes and drive into the horrible traffic into downtown Portland.

So, as of March 5th, I am working as a Network Ops d00d for Encounter Collaborative. So far I love the job and am really enjoying working with the folks that are here. At the very least this will be a tremendous resume builder and may eventually lead into a job in development.

As to my blogging, I'll be getting more pics of the kiddo up hopefully later this week.

Cheers!