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Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Going back to work: another perspective

Coincidentally with my return to work yesterday, the AJC published a nice little opinion piece from someone else who had been out of work. The link to the AJC is here, or if the AJC pulls it down, I've included it as as an essay.

A quote:

I recently talked with a friend about how being unemployed for six months affected him.

"Do you remember yourself this time last year when we met?" I asked him.

"That person is dead, " he replied.

It's been a year since I lost my full-time job as an information technology specialist and six months since my last contract job. Now I'm going back to work. I'm looking forward to getting my life back. But it will be a different life.


12:52:30 PM      comment []
New job has advantages

I didn't get a chance to note it yesterday, but I have a job again. I'm working at Georgia Tech for their central IT group. Yesterday was the first day I'd been to work in 158 days, so the change was very welcome.

One of the differences about working for a university is evident today: I came to eat lunch at the student center, and while looking around for a place to sit, I noticed iMacs sitting around the edge of the room. iMacs, running OSX, just sitting here for people to use them. So that's where I'm blogging from right now.

Right now I have a temp position with Tech, but there's a pretty good chance I'll be brought on full-time in the next month or so. Right now we're in a "try-before-you-buy" mode.

They're setting up an old PII laptop for me. Tech has 802.11 at various places around campus, so I should be able to enjoy blogging outside (or home on the couch) again.


12:44:28 PM      comment []

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