The Aerie
Well tomorrow's the big day. Hopefully I can make Spring of 2004 the first day of a new year. I'm starting a long-term consulting assignment with a big client, I can commute by bicycle, and I'm hoping to write and exercise more often.
And I'm hoping to journal regularly. I know, I know, once again I hold out promises as weak as an addict's oath, but all I can do is try.
Lots of cultures celebrate their New Year in the Spring, I guess I can give it a try.
The opportunity was a big surprise. Back in early March I got Yet Another Opportunity call: would I like a long-term security assignment, and can my resume be submitted. Sure, sure, no problem, whatever I thought. At the time I was standing in the abandoned offices of a company that had lost a big court case, and my mind was on securing their data, not on this thin chance of a job.
I thought nothing of it until a week ago Friday. I was still numb from the stress of buying out one of my business partners when the phone rang. It was the placement agent.
"You know that client we put you in for? Well they've decided not to go with an interview..."
No problem, I thought, I hadn't expected to get it.
"...They've decided to hire you without an interview."
I was surprised. So was he: he'd never seen anyone hired without an interview before.
All this week it has seemed rather unreal - without the ritual of the interview and the handshakes and the anxious hoping, it has seemed rather fictional.
But on Friday I met with the fellow who will be my colleague under the same supervisor - we'll essentially be the assistants to the Chief Security Officer of a major national bank - and that put a little meat on the bones of this opportunity. Then yesterday I rode my bike to my new workplace in order to get a feel for the route, and it sank in a little more.
Today I've been getting my rebuilt laptop ready (Thanks Speedy!) and I've got to go now and get my clothes lined up for work. Then to sleep, and awake, and off I go, without a firm idea of what I'll be doing but a real good sense of what a big chance this is.
Posted by Albatross at April 4, 2004 9:04 PM