{"id":508,"date":"2008-08-03T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devinreams.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-02-28T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:54:42","slug":"the-one-about-the-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"The One About The New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a few spare minutes to collect my thoughts I figured I&#8217;d share a little about my professional life as of late:<\/p>\n<h2>The Previous Employer<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not aware, I left my job of 11 months and 3 weeks (just barely a year) this past July 18th. I had been working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ey.com\">Ernst &amp; Young<\/a>* and made a quick decision to move on to my passion: the internet. The firm itself is awesome; they&#8217;ve definitely earned the many awards and recognitions (a top 25 employer for a decade according to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/bestcompanies\/2008\/\">Fortune<\/a>). I learned a lot, worked with great people and clients, and I don&#8217;t really regret anything about my time spent at E&amp;Y.<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons learned from my first full-time job out of college:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"handshake I\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/24436943@N00\/1350774613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1288\/1350774613_09ec0c2d32_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve learned plenty from my other experiences and jobs but this one is a bit different. It was my first full-time job out of college (not an internship, not a part-time job); one where I had bosses, business cards, a phone number, responsibilities, performance reviews, etc. Some things may be obvious or things you&#8217;ve read about before&#8211;but this is the kind of stuff I finally learned from experience.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ll never love everything about any job. But it&#8217;s definitely possible to dislike most of it.<\/li>\n<li>The people you work with are extremely important (50 hours is different than a few times a week).<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully you like those people if you don&#8217;t like the work, or else things get frustrating.<\/li>\n<li>Despite management&#8217;s best attempts, I&#8217;m still convinced I can work an entry-level corporate job from home.<\/li>\n<li>And I could probably do a typical entry-level corporate job in 20 hours a week.<\/li>\n<li>Many people still see the &#8216;ladder&#8217; and the need to &#8216;pay dues&#8217;, they&#8217;re the rule, not the exception<\/li>\n<li>Some people are very good at getting work done, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they can manage \/ lead<\/li>\n<li>Big companies are great because there are processes and structure that help support you<\/li>\n<li>The wealth of knowledge is &#8220;out there&#8221; but so damned hard to collect and organize<\/li>\n<li>Traveling can be fun no matter where you go (anywhere from Lexington to Atlanta)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and I could go on and on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2>The Current Employer<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m now working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdfavorite.com\/\">Crowd Favorite<\/a> which is an internet company specializing in WordPress (the software that powers this website), custom web development and design, consulting, and builds some web products. Surprise surprise, I&#8217;m working on the web!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose this isn&#8217;t new: I&#8217;ve moved around a lot and some people might look at that as being scattered or unfocused. But, guess what: all that moving around and dabbling paid off! I found something I really enjoy (and I think I&#8217;m good at it, too). How do I know? For starters, I&#8217;ve been excited to go to work all 10 days these last two weeks (and enjoy checking \/ responding to business e-mails during some of my spare time)!<\/p>\n<p>My job is a mixture of things but I think we could describe it as a mix of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Account management:<\/strong> working closely with customers to help address things including future development needs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business development:<\/strong> following up with individuals that are looking to use our services, deciding what we can do to help and make sure they&#8217;ve fully explored their projects<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project management:<\/strong> managing project goals and tasks, scheduling them internally, managing budgets, updates to clients, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal projects:<\/strong> there are some things we&#8217;d like to do internally and I&#8217;ll be managing those, too<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, that sums up what I&#8217;ve been doing and what I&#8217;ll be working on. Everyone I work with is great, I&#8217;m happy, excited and learning plenty each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; color: #999999;\"><em>* Note: this is the first and only time the firm name was used on my site (for employment \/ search engine \/ opinion purposes). They were aware of devinreams.com and I was aware of their awareness.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a few spare minutes to collect my thoughts I figured I&#8217;d share a little about my professional life as of late: The Previous Employer If you&#8217;re not aware, I left my job of 11 months and 3 weeks (just barely a year) this past July 18th. 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