Posts Tagged ‘work’

Workity Work

Spent 10 hours in the office today.
2 hours spent setting up my PC…again.
1 hour spent at lunch.
6.8 hours getting jboss, swing and python 2.4 to work
0.2 hours of coding, totalling a massive 10 lines of java.
You would think I was getting paid for each line that I write.
Sounds horrible doesn’t it? Well, it’s alright, I [...]

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Start of corporate life

I started working at Macquarie yesterday. Went through an induction where there were team activities, presentations and of course free food. Today, I got told what I would be doing.
It seems easy enough, but like everything, it’s all easy when you first hear it.
I have 3 tasks.
First task is to upgrade an existing permission system. [...]

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I’ll probably be a sellout

So I went for my interview at Intersect today. It’s a not-for-profit organisation that does projects for research institutions. It went pretty smoothly in my opinion. My interview was scheduled for 9:30am and I got there just in time.
Interview started off like any other, brief run down of the company, asked some questions about myself [...]

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