Gunpowder Chronicle posted on October 24, 2011 21:44
As many of my family and good friends know, I started a new job on October 10th. After a two-month hiatus brought about by my contract being terminated with University of Maryland, I have joined the programming group at Antek Healthware, the “labs” division of CompuGroup Medical, USA. We develop a series of products centered around laboratory information systems used by physician-owned laboratories, reference labs, veterinarians and other lab-type enterprises.
I have to say, its good to be working full-time again. Actually, it is great. There is much to be said for the value of work.
Its also great to be working in the private sector, again. When I went to the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2008, I was not prepared for the sheer level of bureaucratic lethargy, poor decision making, and outright incompetence that prevailed upon Maryland’s so-called “founding campus”. For an are chock full of people with PhDs who believe strongly in the value of that academic achievement, the lack of actual achievement, leadership and management skill, and commonsense is appalling. And in my interactions with other state agencies I saw much of the same. I come away from three years in the government sector more anti-government than when I entered. Please don’t get me started on the lack of value in academia, either.
Work is good. Getting paid for work is better. As a bit of a workaholic, August and September were very difficult months for month, fraught with disappointment, hesitation, fear, trepidation, worry, and more. But I made through with the help of family and friends. And I found that the light at the end of the tunnel WAS NOT an oncoming train.
Instead, it was the beginning of the next great adventure.