Observations: First days on the job
Well I started work at Sun this week and I would say that I’m in a huge adjustment period right now, but one that will be very positive when it settles down. After a few days on the job, there are a number of things worth mentioning:
- I’ve only been there a few days and I am already confident that Sun will be a great environment to work in. Sun has no cubicles (I have my own office with a large work area, a door, and a private quiet space if I need it), casual dress (jeans to work every day), flexible hours (I’ll prob. end up taking 1.5-2 hrs for lunch every day so that I can workout/play frisbee), and most importantly very nice and very smart people (from what I gather and whom I’ve met so far).
- Commuting 40 minutes to an hour each way every day is tiring. I’ve worked plenty of 40 hour weeks before at O/K, but that was a 7 minute commute. Driving in traffic for that amount of time every day is definitely more taxing on your body.
- It’s tougher to come up with the energy to blog after working all day. Interestingly, Sun encourages their employees to blog, and provides their own blogging service for anyone working at Sun to use. I haven’t really gotten deep enough into any projects yet to be enthusiastic enough to write about them, but hopefully I will soon and start occasionally writing while at work. (I’ve also set up a super secret Sun blog that is internally accessible to Sun employees only. Any bloggable material that contains potentially overly revealing information will go there!)
- And perhaps the most overwhelming emotion that I’ve been experiencing while starting my first full time job: I really miss Katy. She’s meant so much to me and to my personal growth as a person over these last 3+ years. Talking on the phone is nice, but I really wish that she was here as I enter into the next chapter of my life.
Back to work tomorrow.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
I really miss you too Owen, but I want you to know that I’m there for you (no matter where I am)! I’m so proud of all that you’ve accomplished. I’m sure that you’ll be happy with your new job. This is only the beginning!
You’re going to meet so many great people, and learn so much about yourself as a person. I still feel that our time apart will ultimately bring us closer together. It’s important for you to know that you’re always in my thoughts, and I’m really looking forward to seeing you over break. I love you Owen! 
I’ll always be your Katy… no doubt 
. xoxoxoxo
October 31st, 2005 at 11:53 pm
[...] Wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted. Actually, in all fairness to myself, I have been doing quite a bit of blogging over these past couple of weeks. However, it’s been on my other blog that is only internally accessible to those who have access to the Sun corporate WAN. I’m still debating whether or not I want to merge that blog into the public realm of owenkellett.info. As I mentioned in a previous post, Sun encourages their employees to blog and has a system for setting up both public and private blogs. Considering all of the privacy concerns and media attention given to certain individuals at companies like Google and Apple who have been fired for disclosing company secrets on their blogs, I thought it would be easier to simply keep my work-related blogging internal to Sun’s network. [...]