North by Northwest
It was looking awful grim there, gang. This time, two weeks ago, the job hunt wasn’t going so smoothly. I had leads on jobs. Jobs I wanted in places that weren’t Louisville. Or Louisville-based jobs that weren’t for me. More emails to write, contacts to make, things to look into. Lots of maybes, not as many in the ‘yes’ column as a fresh college graduate might’ve been hoping for.
Until just this past Wednesday. I was offered a job at one of the biggest companies on the planet. They’ve summoned me out to their lab in Redmond, WA to help build their next generation web app (psst.. it’s even got a codename). I’ll be doing front-end development under the super sweet title Web Developer III, my voice booming like The Wizard of Oz.
Upon receiving this news, I jumped up and down until my heels began to swell. Never before have I made screaming expletives into such a jubilant spectacle. I am overcome with a feeling so terrifyingly exciting; a Molotov cocktail of adrenaline (which would be a stellar name for an energy drink, bro).
First day of work at Microsoft is on June 16th. My plan, then, is to skip town next Monday or Tuesday for a good ol’ fashioned road trip. Twenty-four hundred miles, split up by lots of stops and sights, and good conversation with hospitable strangers. Time to load up my portable media player of choice!
It’s a twelve-month contract gig. After that, well… we’ll see if any Louisville companies decide to take a chance on a guy with no .NET experience.
What say you?