I’ve been at my current job for 5 years. We got bought by a big company a couple of years ago, and (with the uncertainty ahead) I started looking for another place to work. Then I got sick of looking and decided when the right job came along, I’d know. I still got my regular spam from monster.com, but for the most part, I quit paying any attention to the job market.
Then my friend Aaron called me several weeks ago. That’s not really out of the ordinary…we talk all the time. This call was different. He wanted to talk with me about going to work for him. I said we could talk it over.
So we talked. We talked about where I am in my career now, and we talked about what I could do to help his company going forward. We got all of the details worked out earlier this week, and I’ll be officially a part of SafeBrowse.com in about 10 days.
I’m excited about the move. And I’m not just saying that because half of SafeBrowse.com reads my blog. It will be good to work closely with some great friends I’ve known for 10 years now. (10 years?! wow!)
I’ll get to do a lot of stuff I’m currently very familiar with: Active Directory, server management, firewalls, routers, flesh-eating robots, etc. And then I’ll get to stretch my skills a bit getting into supporting the infrastructure for their products. It’s all geek stuff, yes, but I like that sort of thing.
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I have heard nothing but great things about that organization and the guys that founded it. I’ll bet it will be a blast working there.
Just keep the flesh-eating robots out of my cubicle. Also, I’m not too sure about the guy in charge around here…he smells funny sometimes.
Floyd told me about this yesterday. It’s ALC’s loss. Good luck at safebrowse.
See you on Sunday.
Penrod
Congratulations!!!!
Sorry ALC, we just needed more Ron around SafeBrowse. We actually needed more Aaron, but we had to settle for someone with few less A’s.
More Aaron is probably more than this crazy world could handle. More Ron is almost too much. almost.
Congratulations, Ron. It sounds like a great move. Your favorite headhunter (me) says, “If your former employer makes a counter offer, don’t take it.” Good luck on the career move.
Chris, I hope you were not referring to me. Just in case…for the record…I take at least 1 shower per day. And Ron, make sure you sit as far from Chris as you can when you get here. He tends to complain about his cubemates if they make even the slightest noise.
“If your former employer makes a counter offer, don’t take it.”
Thanks, Curt. They didn’t, and I wouldn’t.
Congrats on the new gig, Ron.
Shane,
You and I both know that Alex on the phone does not qualify as “the slightest noise.”