new job

Today I rejoin the ranks of the employed, working for ISC. They seem like a good bunch, and they offered me what I was making at Wind River, which is frankly more than I thought I could get from a public-benefit company. I'll also be working from home, which gives me back the 70-90 minutes I was spending in the car each day, to say nothing of the gas. I just need to carve out the physical, temporal, and mental work space, so I get the right work/non-work split. For the last 8 years or so, I've been working either on solo projects, or with people in other sites, so I'm used to remote collaboration. But even then, I was expected to show up in the office most of the time. It should be fine, it's just a change.

I was laid off February 6, officially "separated" from Wind River February 20, and I've really been enjoying having the time off. It's the longest I've been without work since graduating high school, 26 years ago. I wouldn't have minded having the rest of the summer off, but we have some big-ticket expenses coming up (new car, new floor for the dining room and possibly kitchen), and the company probably has things they want me to do. Of course, right now I'm just filling out paperwork, setting up a new linux box, clearing space for it, and waiting for my boss to wake up.