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New job and back to school    [ Rants ]

It's the new year, and time for change.   I had been looking around for a different job to get away from my unix-admin-in-a-microsoft-bodyshop position, and managed to come across a neat gig doing VPN and security engineering with another company.   Woo-hoo!   So I'm saying goodbye to the folks at $OLD_GOVT_CONTRACTOR and saying hello to new folks at $NEW_GOVT_CONTRACTOR.   I'll miss the people there, but not the position or all of the particular attributes of that environment.

So I have five business days left at the current job now, and I'm feeling like a short-timer.   Everyone's been really nice at $OLD_GOVT_CONTRACTOR, and I'd like to keep in touch with them - it's a small world, and it's interesting to see what folks end up doing six months or a year down the road.

And I've decided to bite the bullet and finish up the classes I need for a degree.   I'll only need four classes or so to get my associate's degree in CS at NOVA community college.   Then maybe I can finish up my bachelor's degree at Mason, or maybe not.   At least getting the associate's degree would give me something, which would be far preferable to the nothing I have right now in the college diploma department.