Post #379,566
8/19/13 10:35:47 PM
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iwethey--++
Today was my first day as the Chief Architect at an automotive finance/credit firm. Fun times ahead, but the commute is a killer: 45 minutes now, where before it was 4.5 minutes from bed to den.
Lots of Java, Oracle, messaging, and so on, and enough of a target rich environment to keep me busy for a while.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #379,567
8/19/13 10:51:59 PM
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Excellent! Congratulations!
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Post #379,568
8/19/13 11:09:03 PM
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Well dang...
That sucks.
crazy in the Finance/Wall Street crap... you in the Automtive Finance crap...
Sheesh. Please don't you two do a melt down of the financial industry!
Anyway. Congrats!
I'm really surprised you left the other side of things.
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Post #379,762
8/22/13 9:03:23 PM
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Not really finance.
Credit aggregation. Not the evul bank, but a middleman between the evul and the dealers.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #379,569
8/19/13 11:25:46 PM
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Congrats! solvency first..
Later on.. Rebellion.. more clever than the bizness mind can fathom. Eh?
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Post #379,572
8/20/13 2:50:25 AM
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Congratulations!
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
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Post #379,576
8/20/13 8:07:07 AM
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Congrats, Scott!
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Post #379,580
8/20/13 8:27:43 AM
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{+}
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Post #379,581
8/20/13 8:52:48 AM
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Congrats!
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Post #379,582
8/20/13 9:00:34 AM
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Re: iwethey--++ congrats!
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #379,636
8/20/13 8:00:15 PM
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Very cool
And my commute is 72 minutes on the train, then 15 minutes of walking.
So be happy.
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Post #379,763
8/22/13 9:05:22 PM
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It's not the length of the commute
I don't mind the drive per se as I'm taking the opportunity to learn a spoken language.
The hours, however, force me to get up very early (for me at least), which time shifts my bedtime (because of my sleep issues) to the point where I don't have a lot of room left in the evening for family or decompression.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #379,795
8/23/13 8:14:29 PM
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I just started really enjoying it
I almost always get a decent seat, with either no or an unobtrusive seat mate.
Got a great pair of noise canceling headphones.
Click, the train disappears.
I've got a great last gen Nexus 7, and I'm about 400 pages into HHGTTG, using an easy interface that I don't need glasses for.
I also love my smoke breaks. 40 floors down, FAST, smart elevators, walk outside, and get a continuous pageantry of NYC on sunny summer day. WOW. It's amazing, and rarely duplicating.
I'm going to buy a decent pair of rollerblades (again), to use to/from the train station in NYC. M will dropoff and pickup locally.
As far as decompress with family, it's perfect. I am in my office, EARLY, 7:30, but I leave guilt free to catch the 5:17 home. I get home 5 minutes before B does, M has already prepared dinner to be waiting before she picks me up at the train station, so it all hits perfectly for the next hour or so.
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Post #379,657
8/21/13 8:19:24 AM
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Sehr gut, mes felicitations!
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Post #379,722
8/21/13 11:34:02 PM
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Good going!
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Post #379,756
8/22/13 5:52:20 PM
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Gratumalations!
-Mike
@MikeVitale42
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #379,757
8/22/13 6:55:01 PM
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Very cool... ought to keep you off the streets.
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Post #379,764
8/22/13 9:06:52 PM
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Thanks all.
Office with nice windows and southern exposure suitable for plants, great coworkers, and even a numbered underground parking space. I've certainly had worse work situations by far.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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