Starting My Career… Finally!

Just a quick note to everyone.

Today I accepted a position with the California State Lands Commission.

More Anxiety: Playing The Waiting Game

You may recall that back in September I took a State test in-order to get on the ‘eligible to be hired list’ for the Associate Programmer Analyst classification. In order to pass the test you need to get a 70%, however, in order to be listed for immediate hire you need to score in the top three ranks. Your rank is based on your score which is rounded to the nearest 5%. When I took the test there was 1 person with a rank of 95%, about 15 people with 90%, and about 60 people with 85%. I got an 80%, along with about 500 others, which put me into the fourth rank. Since I took the test there was about a period of two weeks where I was actually in rank 3, since the one person with 95% went off the list, but that didn’t help me much and eventually another person came back on the list with 95%. For the most part the list has remained the same, with a few minor fluctuation’s, since I passed the test.

This past week there was a somewhat unfortunate change for me, there are now 3 people with 95%. This will make it even less likely that I will be able to move back into the top 3 ranks anytime soon. Looking on the bright side at least no one has gotten a 100% which would push me down to the 5^th rank.

However, this isn’t all bad. Just because I’m not available for immediate hire doesn’t mean I can’t apply to new job postings, which is exactly what this post is really about!

Since I graduated, something I still need to muse about, I have been applying for various jobs. I need to get hired sooner rather than later since my student assistant job will expire towards the end of March. Being unemployed would really suck.

New Quote: Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

CA DMV Website Redesign

As some of you know I’m currently a student assistant working at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. I work on their EGov team, which is the group that develops and deploys most of the DMV’s web applications. Over the past month I have been working on a fairly high profile project within the DMV, to apply a new look and feel to the DMV’s web site so that it conforms to the new California State template. We were only given 6 weeks to accomplish this so we had to prioritize what was to change and what was to remain the same.

Engagment & Graduation Photos

OK, so I’m still taking a bit too long in between my posts, sorry.

Back in October Christi and I were scheduled to take engagement photos with our wedding photographer, Jennifer Pechan. We took the pictures at the park by the capitol since it is fairly close to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, which is were we will be making our wedding vow’s in a few short months, June 16^th 2007. Right after our engagment photos Christi and I got our caps and gowns and took our graduation photos there too.