Employment again
Yes, I am re-employed. As of the 3rd of January I will be working for Red Hat Inc. My official title is Global Learning Services Instructor. I will be doing Red Hat Linux training all over the U.S. Mostly confined to the Central U.S. It’ll be about 75% travel. It’s a lot of time on the road but it seems like a fun job.
I got the initial call from a recruiter about 3 weeks ago. Over the first couple of weeks I had three phone interviews. Last Tuesday I was flown to their site in Westford, MA, near Boston, for a day of face-to-face interviews. I thought they went well but didn’t hear back for almost 2 days which really had me sweating.
On Friday I got a call that they were preparing an offer and to be ready to get it via email. The offer came in on Monday morning and was a pretty good offer. I took all day reading over the paperwork and faxed it back Monday evening making it official.
I fly to corporate headquarters in Raleigh, NC on Jan 3rd to start orientation and then my training.
Years of riding the contracting bandwagon at IBM have finally ended. It made for the best Christmas present my family could ever have gotten.