Unquickie
I wasn’t crazy about leaving Carbondale last night. I wasn’t dreading the drive; I didn’t want to leave Beth for a week. I was putting off leaving so much that I cleaned my car’s dashboard even though I haven’t touched since last Fall… at best. I was only out the door 30 minutes after I had originally planned which put me in Nashville at 8:45.
I’m disapointed with my hotel but it’s my fault. I didn’t look closely enough to ensure there was a refrigerator and microwave. I assumed that it would but I was wrong. I was looking forward to having some Simply Orange and water bottles in my room but I’ll get by.
I got a call last week from my recruiter. He wanted to walk me in this morning but admitted that this last step seemed redundant. Then this morning I got another call from the other recruiter who set up the same meeting as if I never heard from anyone last week. I just played along.
My day was laid out in an agenda that every employee was given. It was nice to meet people that had at least a heads up a new employee was starting. People rolled in a little later due to Mondayitis but I met a large chunk of the crew by the days end. My morning was spent getting a heads up about the development process and environment from one of the senior developers. Then I finished off the morning setting up my computer. I opted to add Ubuntu to my laptop because even though I feel more comfortable with Windows as a GUI, I would rather development inside Linux.
I was taken out with a group of 7 to DaVinci’s pizza on the company’s dime. It was nice to see to spend some time away from work and see people away from work.
After lunch I found out that I will be working more with the UI than I would as a pure backend developer. That means I’ll be elbows deep in HTML, Javascript, CSS, as well as Perl. I originally thought that I would be doing that but my last conversations made me believe it would be more Perl than HTML. I’m very happy.
First days suck at any job but this was easily the most pleasant one I have ever had. Having two years of experience under your belt helps.
