Ask and Ye Shall Receive…
Finally! 2008 is about over…what a hellacious year it has been. There have definitely been several high points, including getting engaged, getting a kitten, getting a Mac Pro, and getting a job!
Yes, you read correctly, I am now employed! On Monday I received an offer at ITaP (Purdue’s IT Conglomerate) for a full-time position within Teaching and Learning Technologies, who I worked with as an undergrad. I will be helping maintain ~2500 Lab Machines, TIC sites, and some of the infrastructure behind them, among other things. I start January 5th and am about as excited as I can be. I’ll have an office, healthcare, sane hours, the whole nine yards; why didn’t I think of doing this 11 months ago?! 
Lets go over 2008’s employment history for me:
- January – December: Independent Technical Consultant — Small Consulting Jobs
- January – April: Lab Coordinator — Cyber Forensics Lab (Purdue)
- January – May: Web Application Dev — AgCommunications (Purdue)
- May – June: Web Application Dev — (ETC)
- June – December: Technical Consultant — (FindRefs)
- June – July: Technical Consultant — (InfoComm)
- June – August: Network Software Tech — (Purdue)
- August – December: Teaching Assistant — (Purdue)
Now lets look at 2009’s tentative schedule:
- January – December: Lab/Sys Administrator — ITaP/TLT
- January – December: Ind. Technical Consultant — As Needed
I, personally, can definitely see the upside to this…
So to tie in the post’s title, 2009 should be the revolution I was looking for in that last post. With a stable, long-term, and somewhat generous income, and a plan-able schedule, I’ll hopefully have time to turn my attention to things I’ve been forced to neglect: my fiancé, my Home Theater (I need a new couch, receiver and Mac Mini, the former is dying and the latter has been dead over a month now), my servers (possibly either doing away with VMWare and going back to an all-in-wonder box or getting a decent Dell PowerEdge and running ESXi (or some combination of the two)), and with any luck several other yet-to-be-defined projects.
And Lastly, a quick announcement:
- I’m now a Twitterfiend. You can catch my feed at http://www.twitter.com/peelman