Work, it ruins your life. Om mani padme hum.
See what happens when I actually have a job!? Nada blogging. Ah well. My boss at my current contract likes me so much she has had some other people hire me since my time at Inovant (aka: Evil Dark Lord Visa International) is up tomorrow. Thus, Wednesday I start a super-scary yet possibly very wonderful job skinning (and hopefully making more logical along the way) a web app that manufacturing engineers use to make their process more lean. Darrel is indeed smiling from above and laughing as I learn about EPEI, Work Cell Groups, capacity planning and supply chain quandries.
This job is much more intimidating than an average web site because a lot of people will use this as their daily tool and the company just fired their last designer and they’re in an EMERGENCY UI SITUATION so there is stress. Saturday I had the most intense four hour long business meeting/interview/thrown to the lions event of my life while I sat with the VP of Product Strategy and he tested my brain and threw story problems at me.
When I left I was, uh, not stable and slightly traumatized. As I pulled out of the parking lot onto Loop 360 I spied the largest gold Buddha I’ve ever seen. Determined to see who had put such an omen in my path as I was thinking of ditching everything and heading for the Pacific, I did a U-ie and drove into the parking lot of what turned out to be the largest Buddhist temple I have ever been in. It’s a Taiwanese sect and the main meditation/lecture hall had three Really Big Buddhas lined up and smiling in front, surrounded on all walls by dancing, happy bodhisatvas. They had the largest bowl bell I’ve ever laid eyes on. The place is remarkable. It’s not a coincidence that it is across the road from my potentially stressfull/possibly wonderful job. After sitting for a while I came out and explored the grounds. I ran into a young (25 or younger?) nun who was lovely and talked with her for awhile.
MMmmmm, Buddha-Job.
