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