New Job

New job

I’m starting at a new job this morning. 

I’ve been looking since April. Well sort of; it took me a long time to accept the fact that full time might be the best choice for me at this point in my life. But once I accepted that, I went straight to Infusion Development and got in their interview process. 

I’ve known about Infusion since about 2006 via their ads on DotNetRocks. As I understood, they’ve been growing super fast, have reputation for having bright developers, & a bleeding edge development strategy.  For example, Infusion is a leading developer of Microsoft Surface apps … If you’re reading this, I’m sure you know about Surface already, but if you don’t, go to Google Video and do a search on it.  It’s an awesome product.

I won’t be working on the Surface though. I really want to work in ASP.NET MVC / jQuery, and that’s what I’ll be doing. 

I’ve wanted to work at Infusion for a long time, but didn’t act on it since I had a pretty good thing going as an independent consultant. But when my contract ended in April, a bit of soul searching led me to the conclusion that I needed to push my career to another level, and this might be the best strategy.

As I understand it, Infusion has over 100 developers in their Toronto offices. If you’ve ever looked my Twitter feed, you know I like talking to smart developers. So, yeah, I’ll be in heaven.  🙂

One thing I’ve noticed since I started looking for a job is that I seem to have missed an important exit in my career. Nobody looks for developers with more than 10 years experience. It seems that after 10 years most dev’s have moved to management or architecture, which makes sense, but as a ‘do it all’ independent consultant, I never made that distinctive leap. I made more of a indistinctive transition.

Based on conversations during interviews, I got the impression they would like to see me pursue a move to architect and will help me do it. So that’s nice … Assuming I did interpret that correctly. 

Infusion also has a wickedly awesome intensive training program as well, where you do intensive, 8 hours a day, in house, until you learn the new technologies.  I believe they even have their own training team. Freakin awesome!  

The HR lady was happy when I expressed excitement about the training. She said a lot of people don’t like it. I’m like WHAT!?!?. In all seriousness, I expect it won’t be too long before my manager gives me an ass kicking for signing up for too many training courses.

You know, I’m really too old to be naively enthusiastic about a new job, and I’m sure there will be things that suck, there always are. But for right now, I don’t think there is a job I would like more, is better for my career, or can best maximize my talents.

I am very excited about starting at Infusion today, helping them kick ass and take names. 😉

Wish me luck.

3 Responses to “New Job”

1. John Cook says:

   July 12, 2010 at 8:24 am

   Congratulations! I wish you all the best in your new job.

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2. Anna Lear says:

   July 12, 2010 at 12:48 pm

   Congratulations and best of luck with the new gig. 🙂

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3. John MacIntyre says:

   July 12, 2010 at 7:26 pm

   Thanks guys. And just an FYI-I had a great day. Holy crap am I busy. 😉

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