I just came out of a little self-imposed cave, and decided that I was no longer afraid of blogging.
I also want to let you know that I got a cool new job in January this year, and I'm still with the same gigantic corporation. When my new boss went on leave to have her second baby in March, I also got to take over part of her role (IT Manager for this particular department) for over 5 months. Then I went on my vacation, and came back to my old, cool new job, which is even better because now I realize how nice it is to not be responsible for all IT-related things.
The best things about my cool new job are that I am doing almost exactly what I went to grad school to do, and I am doing it for the real movers and shakers in the corporation - the people who negotiate the big deals, manage the divestiture projects, and make the decisions about mergers. I can't blog about any details, or any other interesting nuggets, though I will say that I knew about the my company's activities in Kurdistan well before any of it was announced.
It is an incredible job, and I get an amazing view of how the gears of the economy run. Since I wanted to make this a brief post, I'll end here, with a quote from a recent Morrissey song that I think sums up my own experience too (just the part quoted here, the whole song is more appropriate for Morrissey's life than mine).
I was a small fat child in a welfare house
There was only one thing I ever dreamed about
And fate has just handed it to me - whoopee!
-From All You Need is Me
