Day 314/365: The Big Reveal

[nanila]

As promised on Thursday, here is the public announcement of the Big News.

I started a new job last Monday.

After almost exactly twelve years, I left the lab. I was sad to go, but my reasons for leaving were myriad and included being very, very tired after six years of commuting between London and Birmingham. My one-way commute has gone from three-plus hours to just over half an hour, including drop-off times for both children.

I'm still working in engineering, just doing a different role at a different institution, about which I shall be intentionally vague to protect my pseudo-anonymity here.

We shall see how it goes. My apologies if I'm less responsive here than usual; learning a new job is time- and energy-intensive.

Comments

[pbristow]

My all your colleagues be helpful, all your rookie "oops"-es non-mortifying, and all the new acronyms easy to learn. [NODS]

=:o}

[angelofthenorth]

Congratulations

[cmcmck]

And you have a lovely part of the world to be closer to as I should know! :o)

[lilly_c]

Congrats on the new job

[quoththeravyn]

Congrats and best wishes.

For myself, I'm counting on my fingers (now one hand!) the number of weeks of on-call-ness I will have to do before I retire from The Bizniss. Glad you've escaped with your wits intact.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Congratulations! Good luck training and learning your new job. <3

[nicki]

Grats on the new job!

[st_aurafina]

That's so exciting! I hope it's going really well.

[gwendraith]

I hope it's going well. Your much easier commute is well deserved :)

[ironed_orchid]

I'm excited for you.

[angrboda]

congratulations on your new job and new commute :)

[annofowlshire]

Congratulations on the new job, and all those lovely hours you'll have for yourself and your family!

[white_hart]

I hope the new job goes well!

[kotturinn]

Congratulations and best wishes.
That's a much more civilized commute and I hope the time you've reclaimed, and the new job, are everything you wish for.

[brainwane]

Seconding this! And congrats!

[silveradept]

Many congratulations to you at your new job and much happiness for the much shorter commute.

[jb_slasher]

Congrats on the new job! The commute thing sounds like a real relief. I hope everything gets off to a smooth start :)

[lorigami]

congratulations!!

[nanila]

What a great collection of wishes. So far, so good, thanks!

[nanila]

Thank you!

[nanila]

Thanks! So far, I'm hopeful. :)

[nanila]

Yes, it is nice not to feel divided between two places that I'm always too tired to properly appreciate. Now I can focus. :)

[nanila]

Thank you!

[nanila]

Thank you.

Ah, good luck with the final push!

[nanila]

Thank you! So far the training has very much been, "Here is a thing; have a half-hour explanation and then go forth and deploy it," which I've rather enjoyed. I do have some more formal inductions coming up, but my aim is to already know most of the information involved by the time those happen.

[nanila]

Thank you!

[nanila]

Thanks! So far, so good. I really like my team. :)

[nanila]

Thank you! With Week 1 under my belt, I'm not regretting making the shift.

[nanila]

Thank you; so am I!

[nanila]

Thank you! The new commute is still quite surprising. I get to work and I'm like...wow, I'm already here. THIS IS AMAZING. :P

[nanila]

Thank you! Yes, it's so nice to have the extra time, and also (I expect, once I've settled in a bit more) the energy to appreciate the time, particularly at the weekends. :)

[nanila]

Thank you! Me too. The first week augurs well.

[nanila]

Thank you! Yes, me too. I was pretty tired this weekend, but I'm hopeful as I settle into the role that I'll reclaim more energy.

[nanila]

Thank you! Yes, it's an amazingly short commute, given what I was used to. I'm still not over it.

[nanila]

Thank you! It's been a good start so far. :)

[nanila]

Thank you!