Today is a good day

I realise that I have been silent for some time. But today is different. Not only am I 25 now but something greater is happening.

I was silenced, not particularly from laziness or apathy but fear! Most of you will know that Meredith (and Dave) were fired from my workplace recently. In the words of Dave himself (during the firing) "I can understand why me you are firing me, but why the hell did you just fire Meredith?". Meredith was fired for racial slurs, hmmm, anyone who has met Meredith will know that this is a fairly absurd accusation and was a complete technicality. She deserved a warning for having some pretty slack days (and publicizing that fact on the internet). But we all live and learn, and she agrees that she has learnt a big one the hard way. How will she be remembered? Fired for blogging is the simplest way to explain it. That reflects badly on the employer but I am sure they will get over it.

I have been considering getting a new job for quite sometime but didn’t actively look until recently. It’s hard to move on when you are working with close friends such as Meredith and Dave all day. When they were severed with one chop of the corporate axe there was simply nothing keeping me there. The hunt was still not really on, I wanted to come back test the water and see how things were, I was still in the middle of talks with Luke, a dotnetter we had an open offer out to at this point, so I certainly couldn’t leave if he was to accept. I had to be open with him, the poor lad would be moving his life across the pond I at least at to tell him the deal, the basement, the firings. I still recommended that it would be a good move if he wanted to live and work in New York. But like any good tech geek he was more about the work than the location.

So I didn’t actively look for a new job. I passively listened. This paid off. Anyone who calls them-self a good .net programmer should have heard of the .net rocks podcast. A CEO of a software consultancy in New York made an appearance on one episode and basically said that there is a major shortage of good .net talent in New York City. I have to admit that this got my attention. He said that people could email him direct, what did I have to lose? I ended up having numerous interviews, each one made me more intrigued and some were excruciatingly technical and really did expose me. But I came out thinking, that was fun and did me good, I haven’t had an in depth chat to that technical level for quite some time. So here I am a full 2 months after my initial email to the CEO and here I am leaving my current company today. Looking forward, I think that it’s going to be a technically exciting future for me.

I feel free and that I can blog again!

PS Like a Phoenix from the Flames www.justmeredith.com has been reborn and is more uncensored than ever!