So, it looks like I’ve decided on a new position.
Not without some trepidation, of course. The bad is that I’m looking at what could easily be a painful commute through traffic. Though there are supposedly enough ways to the campus, and I’ll have enough schedule flexibility, that traffic really shouldn’t be a worry. Still, I have this irrational fear of Nothern VA traffic. I like driving, not stop and go.
The other fear that I have is that I’ll find out that I really just can’t stand working in a vault. I’m very much a product of a connected world. Lacking quick and easy access to the internet is like lacking access my temporal lobe.
But, the good: I’ll be working on a project in Ruby on Rails. In the community I’m working in, that’s pretty big. “Early adopter” means that they managed to get Windows 2000 on desktops in 2005, so this is pretty big. I’ll get to work on a Unix system (yay!) and the project is relatively green-field — it’s a total redesign of a rather cumbersome enterprisey system that can’t be upgraded. I sort-of know one of the guys I’ll be working with. Enough to know for certain that he knows Ruby really well. Whereas I’ve just sort of dabbled with it. I’ll be learning a lot on that front. To top it all off, the intention of the program is not only one that I can agree with, but one that I think will actually do something useful.
So … new working environment, opportunity to learn something, and the chance to do something good out of it? I’ll deal with the drive.
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