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So I’m no longer an unemployed bum, I’m now an employed bum!

The last two weeks have been pretty busy, even for being all unemployed and such. I’ve been settling in and tidying around the house and looking for work at the same time.

I landed a job with WayPoint (www.waypointinfo.com), a small GIS company nearby. They just started up a 3 years ago, but they seem to be on the cutting edge in terms of technology and ideas.

It took me a little muddling and thinking to decide which way I’d go with my career. Some friends at Stats Can had offered to get me into the government, but it’d only be a temporary position with the hopes of getting me in full time at the end of my term. I also don’t think I’m ready to enter the government yet. I’m still young and my career has just begun, I figure I should give the private sector a try since I’ve never really had any experience in it.

At the same time, WayPoint, as mentioned earlier, will challenge me and push me to learn and adopt new technologies. I’m in the turbulent and fast moving business of software, and it really hurts me if I I don’t keep up with the times. It is all too easy to get locked into one language, one methodology, or one way of doing things and then realize that that mode of thinking has become archaic and outdated in only a span of a couple of years.

I hope that my new job will allow me to grow and lead me to a better position and give me more mobility in the years to come. Unfortunately/fortunately continuous improvement and learning is a necessity to advance in my business, and I hope I can do that here.

Having said that, I may eat my words in the next couple of years when I realize that I’m sick of getting yanked around my companies.  The government will probably be the best fit for me then.  Maybe… we’ll see what will happen.

Anyhow, I have to head to work in the next 15 minutes, so I hope I do well for my first day!

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