{"id":283,"date":"2006-03-11T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:37:09","slug":"splat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/11\/splat\/","title":{"rendered":"Splat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It went like this:<\/p>\n<p>The recruiter called at about 4. The phone interview was at 5. I asked about deadlines and location and the hiring manager said he&#8217;d get back to me. The offer came a few minutes later with the answer that yes, I could work from home part of the time. The usual negotiations took place. Then the recruiter said things like, &#8220;Congratulations! You start on Monday!&#8221; I told them that it was premature, because after all, the offer came at 5 and now, it was 6:30 and some thinking needed to be done. I needed to sleep on it.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning i said yes, let&#8217;s do it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/IMG\/BlogPhotos\/computing.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Computing division, computing section <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to work at Sony&#8217;s digital media division in Salzbug starting next week. It&#8217;s short project and the hiring manager\/project lead sounds like a decent guy. Deadline looming, digital media, new technology, hey ho, let&#8217;s go.<\/p>\n<p>It means a delay in our return to the US, which is totally unplanned. Tickets must be changed, vacation days rescheduled. But I am always up for an adventure and when one hurls itself out of nowhere at you, it seems best not to duck. Splat. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>With the Aigen Ukulele Players Club in swing, school, and now, a job, I seem suspiciously residential. I feel like a trick is being played on me. But I am not fooled, oh ho no. Austria, you are trying but I&#8217;m still going back to Seattle in the spring. Just late spring rather than early. Me and the von Trapps, escaping over the mountains from the evils of&#8230; what, exactly? Contract jobs that allow telecommuting? Ukulele playing neighbors and their generous, liberal parents? Wacky classmates from Kosovo and Acapulco? What? Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Stupid Austria. Quit smirking, you know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It went like this: The recruiter called at about 4. The phone interview was at 5. I asked about deadlines and location and the hiring manager said he&#8217;d get back to me. The offer came a few minutes later with the answer that yes, I could work from home part of the time. The usual &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Splat.\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/11\/splat\/#more-283\" aria-label=\"Read more about Splat.\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}