Work Update I

Only been at work my 3rd week now, but so far... my thoughts:

1) I like it
2) I need to get out of IT/Software Dev / Technology
3) I am sleepy at work at times
4) I have a challenging project to work on.. to kill my sleepyness

Anyways, #1, I like it so far. I like the guy I work for, really cool chap. My coworkers I could do better with, in the sense that they aren't folks I can hang out with or even have regular lunches with.

#2, as noted before.. as I see people in the elevator who are obviously IT folk.. it really makes me realize I need to get out or at least get on top of it. I could manage a team of IT folk, but being one of the mass of smelly annoying immigrants is not what I envision in life. This role may be a good way to sidestep things since although I am a technologist I belong to the research org -- my hope is to be more removed from IT and more aligned to research/business. (Analytics is aa hybrid of Research/Quant work and IT).

My business card is cool, has no mention of IT:
John Doe
Fixed Income Analytics
Fixed Income Research Asia

#3, I guess it doesn't matter if I am working on the trading floor or if I have alot of work to do. No matter what, I am going to be sleepy at 3-4pm everyday.. man I almost dozed off a few days ago. Scary. WTF maybe I need to use the gym or something more often.

#4, I have a nasty bit of rewriting to do of this fairly complicated process in our analytics code. Damn its a bit nasty. Oh well gives me a 2-3 week project to prove myself. I gotta focus, I spent a day and a half now pondering what the heck to do. It usually hits me after a few days of pondering as to how to approach and design a solution. Right now I'm still just pondering.....

So overall the work life is good. I've pretty much been leaving at 7-8pm (closer to 7pm).

Just gotta nail down an apt next!! BTW I benched today, I did sets of 12x90,10x135,4x165,6x135. Damn that is sad. Max 165 is sad, hehe gotta start somewhere. I'll prob be sore for 6 days just from that.