fanfare & drumroll, please ...

It's official. Squarepeg has landed a Serious Job.

I signed today with a very respectable (:-P) company not too, too far from home (20-40 min. drive, depending on traffic). The deal includes a car and a very decent salary, not to mention subsidized lunches at the great restaurants in the area, a subsidized gym membership (critical when food is abundant, delicious and cheap), and of course Life Insurance. This whole package is standard for the Israeli hi-tech sector, and man, it's nice to be back.

Oh, and very nice people ... of which I am now one. [insert angel with halo icon here]

It's been three and a half years since I worked in a hi-tech company ... anybody remember that huge "bang!" in spring of 2001? Yep, I've been wandering in the wilderness since the bubble burst. Since then: a full year of UI benefits which included an interesting and somewhat useful course in Sales & Marketing (subsidized by the Labor Ministry); a fizzled attempt at a muffin business (way too much work for tiny returns); and two years back in Toronto, mostly floating (work-wise) in a "dream job" of sales in a mega-bookstore -- reading (and walking, and shelving) all day ... and, oh yeah, office temping.

Good times.

So with the New Year will come a New Job, a New Era, and naturally a New Life, in which harmony and happy times will reign and there will be World Peace and no further Natural Disasters of earth, wind, fire and water.

What I'm trying to say is, Mr. Squarepeg is finally off my case.