New Look
January 12th, 2007 by Jake Scaltreto
It sure is nice! You'll also notice that I've done some work to integrate my Photography site with this one. Feel free to have a look through the gallery. I apologize if it seems a bit disorganized at the moment, I have to go through it and thin it out a bit and ads some meta data to a lot of the images.
As for me, I'm still out in California at least for the timebeing. To be honest, I'm not really happy with the situation as it stands. Way back in October when I agreed to come out here, it was initially planned to be like a one month thing, with the worst case scenario being the end of December. Also, there were plans to hire someone locally who I would train to work with me and eventually replace me when I came back. Well, long story short, no one has been hired yet and I'm still here.It wouldn't be so bad if it were work that I was interesting to me. Although there's a lot of it, not much of the work really utilizes my skill sets. This is frustrating to me because I've worked for the past couple of years to expand my skills in the areas of Linux and Unix and now I'm not even getting to use those skills. Se la vie.
As for when I can go back to working in Cambridge, that has been and continues to be somewhat open ended. I'm now told the worst-case scenario is the end of March, but this week I was able to corner my boss and finagle somewhat of a reprieve. I will be coming back for one week at the end of this month during which I will return to my old job. The plan, as it stands now, is for me to come back here (to Cali) after that week and have two people (either hired out here or transfered from Cambridge) out here as well. Then I would take on the task of showing them the ropes and transitioning out before my ultimate term sometime in the first weeks of February.
That plan works for me, but my boss declined to fully commit to that withdrawal plan, and maintains that the "worst-case scenario" is late March. I'm very anxious to get back to Boston and with any luck, that should be happening soon. (fingers crossed)
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