Most of you know it already: last September I took the decision to quit my job and take a new position by Siemens Healthcare. I will stay in the Software Research&Development universe – of course – but will add a pretty big part of team management and software design/architecture to my daily (programming) tasks.
After two months of climax building, I definitely stepped out of the “development house” that hosted me days and nights evenings for the past two years. I came in this morning with 4 cakes, a big smile and a lot of hands to shake. I stepped out this afternoon with my rubber balls & plushes, a couple brownish coffee cups, a sense of leaving something behind and a small-but-wonderful present from my now ex-team. Ulf, the colleague I had most to do with (and the one I had most in common with actually) and I had been joking about it for the past 6 months, he did it: he offered me three “10-faces-dices” to help me make my soon-to-come management decisions :]
So, I guess I’m ready, I can stop swallowing management books, stop trying to find back all my C++ memories and better just concentrate on my dices-throw dexterity. Just kidding ; I have only 3 vacation days and one weekend to reach the third cover of all the books I started, finish a personal feedback of the last two years and start with yoga exercises to be Zen when I finally start next Monday… maybe I’ll manage to insert a few hours of sauna in the middle… we’ll see ;]
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Three 10-faces dices !
So, in fact, you move from one Siemens Dept. to another one? While you are resting, please, don’t forget to give us the recipes of the cakes… I think I know what they are but from the pic, it is not easy to guess!
Ah by the way, you should write down that you get three 10d. People would understand better!
The recipes will get their own post in a few days.
For the dices I wondered for a long time how to write it down. My role-playing past told me to say D10, but I settled for the long version+picture for the sake of the non-players reading this.
As for the job I am indeed moving from Siemens Industry sector to the Healthcare sector (it really is like two different companies bytheway), but moreover not as a contractor anymore.
Fantastic news : I am really glad to read that you are no longer a contractor but a part of Siemens.
This is like beginning the writing of a new book of your life. You close one and you are ready for the unexpected, the thrill of discovery on so on !
All the best Tim !
Hum… My bad… indeed D10 and not 10D… Wondering why I switched the position of the letter…