I Had a Senior Moment Last Week (New Job!)

Slowhand

I've been looking for a new full-time gig for a while now. My most recent venture, working part-time for an MSP hasn't been particularly successful and has felt like it's pretty much been a waste of my time since I started back in December of 2011. I work on a contractual basis, getting paid for the hours I work, but the hours have been VERY thin as of late and I'm barely making ends meet. My poor roommate has been tearing his hair out, trying to cover all the expenses on his helpdesk pay.

That all changed last week. I got a call from a recruiting agency last Thursday, went in for an interview with the actual hiring manager on Friday, and got an offer later that afternoon. Starting Tuesday, September 4th, I am the new Sr. Systems Administrator for one of the largest health care providers in the country. Apparently, all the tinkering with PowerShell and upgrading my MCSA 2003 has paid off, because they're having me start working on project to audit and automate the process for migrating a newly-acquired campus' existing AD infrastructure to the larger, more standardized AD forest of the medical group. Apparently, the new hospital's IT duties were being done by an accountant for the past couple of years, so I'm sure it'll be a SERIOUS rats nest.

Officially, the gig is a short-term contract, slated to be a few months. During my 1 and 1/2 hour interview with the CIO, however, he went into excruciating detail regarding several other projects coming up over the course of the next two years. We talked about my experience with large-scale Windows 7 deployments, my background in networking, managing other IT staff, managing upgrade and design projects. . . yeah, I get the feeling I'm going to be here a while.

So, I'm finally back on the horse working, and I get to add the "Sr" prefix to my job-title. All in all, not a bad way to end the summer.

networker050184

Congrats on the new gig!

hiddenknight821

Congrats! You definitely deserved it.

TLeTourneau

Congratulations! How large of a healthcare provider, is it in CA? Just curious.

N2IT

Gratz on the new gig!

Essendon

Congrats man, you deserved it!

cyberguypr

Congrats!

biggene

Congratulations on the new job.

Krones

Hot damn! Congratulations.

yuddhidhtir

Congrats! best of luck for the future

erpadmin

Congratulations!! From the sound of it, you're going to be playing cleanup for a long, long time.....that's great for you.

And if that accountant is still there....sounds like you're really gonna have fun!! LMAO.

NotHackingYou

Awesome!

Vik210

Congrats and all the best!!

Iristheangel

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy for you! That's awesome, Slowhand!

lantech

That's great, though from the title of the thread I was thinking about another kind of senior moment.

Dr IT

Congrats Senior ..

Psoasman

Congrats! Nicely done.

mapletune

congrats Sr. Systems Administrator!! =D

timely too!

Mainframer

Congrats! One man's rats' nest is another man's treasure...

cgrimaldo

Congrats to you!

Slowhand

Thanks a lot for the well-wishes everyone, I'm definitely excited to start next week, and VERY excited to be back in a larger environment than the MSPs had me working in. My new employer is Sutter Health, (through a recruiting agency for the time being,) which I understand is primarily in California, but I've already been talking IT guys from other states that I'll be collaborating with so I'm guessing they have affiliate health care groups that they're partnered with or part of a larger parent-company with. They're not Kaiser-big, but there is a sizable number of campuses to keep track of.

Alright. . . so I'm happy to have the job, but I don't know if I'll ever truly be excited at the prospect of having to go to work every day.