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title: New Job
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date: 2023-06-20
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I'm now working at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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This is a Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory.
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LANL, my previous employer,
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was a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory.
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PNNL is going to have less restrictive policies,
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and more of a focus on science that can be published to the world,
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at the cost of not being as well-funded.
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It's also a fully-remote job.
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At PNNL, this means I only go in to work 3-4 times a year.
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Most of my time will be sitting in my bedroom,
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but they're fine with me working in a coffee shop,
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or on a train,
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or in a VRBO with my wife while she's doing things for her advanced degree.
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This was the roughest job switch I've ever done.
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It was stressful enough that I think it is unlikely I will ever switch jobs again.
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I'll be doing pretty much the same thing I was doing at LANL.
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I'm still managing Cyber Fire,
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and I'll be helping out with some other training things at PNNL.
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This is also my first attempt to use Windows for work.
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I haven't used Windows since about 1993.
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It seems to have improved: I only have to reboot once a day now.
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So that's nice.
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