Category: Work

So yeah, after a weekend recovering from my holiday, tomorrow I’m back at work again. It’s all a bit new actually – we have a new management chain, a new mission, and I have a new job description. Aside from that, it’s the same old show… I’m looking forward to it.

So I’ve been home in Harrogate for nearly a week now, and all I’ve managed to get done is to pretty much understand the workings of the first half of the MCC course. This could be something to do with the fact that the lecturer (die, PG, die) still hasn’t fixed the broken links to the final version of the notes, so I keep having thoughts that the stuff I’m reading and trying to understand is probably wrong anyway. Then again, it could be something to do with the draw of the beast known here as a “television”. Probably both.

Argh. I’m going to draw up a little exam/revision timetable and try and focus a bit more over the next week – I think I’ll give up on MCC for now and concentrate on something less theoretical for a bit.

Why am I writing this anyway? Does anyone actually read this? If so, tell me, otherwise I might just give up this whole weblog thing – it’s almost too much effort…

Just a quick update on the job situation.

– Accenture hate me.
– I decided SchlumbergerSema weren’t good enough for me.
– I’m going to work for IBM in the Notes and Tools group at Hursley.

I start at IBM on the 3rd of November, after our epic Japan trip. It should be fun – my new manager seems like a nice bloke (he made a real effort to allow me to adjust my starting date), and though I haven’t interacted with the rest of the group yet, I suspect they’ll be nice enough.

That and lots of other IC peeps are coming to IBM as well, so that should be fun.

Unfortunately Dave didn’t make it in – foolish IBM recruiters don’t know a good thing when they see one. Still, it looks as if he’ll be working in department as a research assistant. The work sounds interesting, though it’s way beyond me…

Got an email from Accenture yesterday saying I’ve been successful in the first round of applications (filtering the online application forms).
They’ll be contacting me in January about arranging an interview.

This is wonderful news by the way – it means I’ll have a chance to put myself forward in a more face to face way.

Working at Accenture would be great – solving real life problems is what I got into the computing industry to do, so consulting is the way to go. Accenture in particular seems to do things properly, so I’d really like to work with them.