h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just finished watching the original Tron and the new one back to back. An enjoyably nostalgic imagining of the affairs of the programs we write. I've been working with, in, and around computers since the first Tron, and unless a meteor hits the site of my potential new place of employment, I shall be back in the game in about two weeks.

This comes as some relief to me, given the wretched state of the economy. As a recap I used work at a very secure, well-paid job that had the huge disadvantage of being extremely far from my home with my husband. When the contract came to an end, I declined the opportunity to stay with the Company and get on another contract that would be just as far or even farther from my husband.

After that, I worked as a lab tech for a few months and then as a chemical analyst for about a year and a half; all in all just under 2 years. Then I quit to try and ultimately fail to open a chocolate shop in what has turned out to be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The candy-cane nail in the chocolate coffin was catching whooping cough through the holiday season. When I should have been making truffles, I was rather disgustingly sick instead. (I did manage to complete 3 EGEs.)

When it because painfully obvious that I would, and in fact already did, fail I began trying to find a job in the Great Recession. Like every other time in my life, one sneaked up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder while I was job-hunting elsewhere, volunteering to save h2g2, combing kitty-cats at the shelter, and helping out at the radio station.

So the new job should start in about 2 weeks. There still should be time to give all the kitty-cats at the shelter a weekly grooming and help out the radio station's engineer once a week or thereabouts. I also need to bone up on java and a set of open source tools specific to the job.

This probably means I'll have less time for h2g2, or at least, I shall have to use my hootoo time extremely efficiently. I'm a bit amazed that I ended up on the Comms Team rather than the Tech Team, but it is allegedly this sort of working outside one's comfort zone that's supposed to build character, or some such nonsense.

In the meantime, I have quite a few things to wrap up, both online and in Real Life, whatever that is.

you WILL achieve negative thoughts are not an option
and "my" saying is :-it's a small price to pay for fame

Both YAY and AAHH! depending on whether I look at it through my h2g2 eyes or my h2g2c3 ones.

You've been astounding these last few months, and I am truly glad that you've not only found a job but found something that is right up your street.

I hope it all goes well. *crosses fingers*

We'll keep an eye out for you, HN

Goodluck!

I haven't seen either movie but did find myself quite addicted to the original video game in a coin-op laundromat.

Good luck with getting back into the regular work industry.

Congrats on finding the new job, and I hope it goes well. I've found that having less time does make one use h2g2 more efficiently- and has made the time I do spend here more enjoyable as a result. Pleased that you're on the Comms Team, too.

Thank you all for your good wishes.

In other news, Mister Nerd U14956600 finally joined h2g2.

Dr Anthea nabbed him... and we are currently plying him with and

Funny, that's exactly the technique I used all those many years ago.

*giggles*

I dragged my Hubby to a paaarrttaayyyy with a crowd of us, it turned out to be at an ex-friends flat - Ooops!

We still stayed though *hic*

I bought my ex an half pintworst thing I ever did

My bride was a single woman and a when we met, approximately 6 miles from the middle of nowhere. And I was a single male. She had me trapped by the 2nd breakfast

Oh, congratulations.

Good luck with the new job and all your other jobs!

Bit late - but hope it's going well! Have you started yet?

Not yet. About another 10 days.

Very belated congrats!

Hey, look who's back online! Hi, Amy!