poltr1 | Has it really been six months?

My last entry to LJ was back in March. I haven't had a large block of time, or the inclination, to write a long, thought-out post.

The last job: Tech lead and I got along like Spock and McCoy. One time, I asked my agency to put me on another job, and they didn't. I stopped short of quoting the Gestalt Prayer at him. We got two more programmers. And the week before Memorial Day, I was informed that Friday would be my last day. This caught me off guard. I thought the task was ongoing. But they cut it short, and never gave me any heads-up. I felt betrayed.

Anyway, a few weeks later, I interviewed with a defense contracting company that was looking to bid on a position. Part of the interview was to write text about my capabilities that would go into the proposal. And they gave me an offer, pending the award of the contract.

So I kept interviewing. I had an interview with another defense contractor, which kind of went strangely because the recruiter verbally offered me the job a few days later, pending some sort of contingency, and I never heard from him again. And I had an interview (and job offer) with a bank in Columbus.

At the end of June, while I was on vacation, I received word that the first company won the contract, and that I would start the following week. I had to tell the other two that I would be out of integrity if I didn't take the position, as it would leave that company in the lurch.

So what am I doing now? Some programming and mostly system administration for a home-grown cluster of Debian-based systems. Can't say much more about it, since it's DoD-related. But it should last a year.