This is a post nearly 6 months in the making. Yes, I've decided to restart this blogging thing again and commit to posting an entry at least every week.
A lot has happened since the last post. They Tytn II has died about once, lost it's phonebook several times (thanks to my fumbling ways), returned me to civilization many times and guided me around far flung parts of the world including such riparian destinations as Portland, OR.
It has accompanied me on my worldwide travels including to my new home in Honolulu. Honolulu you ask? Yes, I decided to leave the comforts of the Beltway and jump over to Paradise. Maybe when people refer to Hawaii as Paradise they really mean Pair of Dice...it's no doubt a gamble on my part to start a new life here, far from family and friends, starting a new job that I found on the Internet and learning to eat new foods (and paying prices that are eff-ing expensive). But I'm here and I've survived the last two months of my time at the job. Ahh yes, the job.
The mind has a strange way of reasoning out its current station in life. I left my Texas job to start my dreamjob in DC at a certain energy regulatory commission. Having met my goals of working on certain projects, another opportunity opened up this time in a job far more technical, exactly the sort of job I was looking for at the time. So I should be happy, right? Well, why is it that whenever I see newsreleases from my old job I sort of cringe, thinking to myself, damn I wish I was part of that or I'd know exatcly what the issues were if I was still there? Perhaps this is just a phase. But it was fun over there, getting my grubby hands into all sorts of matters, people asking me technical questions that were intriguiging for their engineering as well as legal matters.
However, to be a respectable person in power systems (yes, I'm a power systems engineer), you need to have a technical background. I just wasn't getting it there. Here, it's all I do, albeit the system is much smaller than anything you'd find on the mainland. The advantage: I can get my grubby hands into all sorts of different engineering projects.
Won't be quite the same, but that's the whole reason why I left DC in the first place. The folks at work are different too, but the camaraderie I had with folks at the last job was unbelievable. Like the other phase that I need to pass through, I need to adjust to these new co-workers or at least adjust them to me...Still, for the "land of Aloha," I don't think people are that friendly (a post for another time).
But one thing's for sure, my Tytn II will be at my side, well at least until the Sony Ericsson Experia X1 is released...
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3 comments:
excellent post. you are an extraordinary writer. i hope you get to write in your engineering job. your management is missing out otherwise.
Hawaii has changed from years ago. Many people who live here are from the mainland or from foreign countries. Mainland values have taken over, crime has increased, and for many Hawaii people who have been born and raised here, things have become so expensive and crowded that it is difficult to live here. "Aloha" is still here but has changed over the years. Hawaii is definitely NOT DC. The lifestyle here is not for everyone.
I totally agree. I can very much see the Aloha spirit at my job each day.
For me, the challenge is to overcome my misconceptions and adjust to the new surroundings. Like I said in one of my later posts, I came here to learn. The even greater challenge is to become part of the community and thus learn from the land and the people.
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