Worky worky plans
I might be feeling rather like I’m going to die, but the meeting with my boss went well. Very well. (I can die happy! And with a temperature still even though I’ve been taking tylenol like it’s chocolate.)
My boss thinks my “learn to program quick!” plan is a good one. Yay. Some of the courses I intend to take (machine learning, AI/NLP) will be helpful for the company if I continue working for him. And he thinks that with the skill set I would have (good theoretical linguistics, good machine learning/stats stuff, some programming) I could get myself hired pretty much anywhere, which is nice: I have finally gotten myself on a job track where there are actual JOBS at the end!
The plan is that I will continue working parttime for the year, then discuss working fulltime. On the other hand, should the courses I want to take not be available (machine learning, AI/NLP — I’ll find out next Tues, I think, and classes start Wed . . . whee!), we can rediscuss going fulltime immediately. By rediscuss, I take it to mean that we’re discussing what the salary & benefits would be. Which is good, despite my comments about not really wanting to work there forever and ever. I feel so relieved.
Now I can phone my friend’s mother, the real estate agent, and start asking her for help because prices keep going up here, and I have enough for a down payment on a mortgage (and people to guarantee it) — I saw a place that seemed like it would be nice near the Atwater Market, which I could rent out for a year first. Eeek! I can’t believe I’m even considering doing this now.
August 28th, 2004 at 1:08 pm
Congratulations! It’s good to see you hopeful about the future.
August 29th, 2004 at 12:47 am
Thanks. I have more to say on this — been thinking about this all — but I was sick.
I *am* hopeful, though; this is nice, rather a change.