It’s all signed and sealed, and I’ve called most of my colleagues whom I wanted to inform personally.
I just accepted an offer from MicroSoft to work for them in the Bay Area. They are starting a new operation there with a focus on multi-threading compilers and tools, and it seems like it’s just made to order for me. I’m not mad at Sun or anything, but they don’t really seem to want what I want to do.
I’ll be moving up to the Bay Area over the next few months. It’s liable to take a while, though, because reducing our load to what we can put in a smaller house is sort of like a going out of business sale for Macy’s. It can’t really be done quickly.
I expect to maintain two households for a while until we get it all finished.
I’m excited by the prospects and ready to go. Until then, I have to do a lot of writing for Sun to get the stuff in my head onto paper for the next person who has to pick it up.
Congrats! I look forward to seeing more of you and Flo =)
Congratulations!! Sounds exciting and like a lot of work.
Kathy
Thanks to both of you. It’s both exciting and a lot of work. Moving is never easy, to say nothing of the job itself
Congratulations!
It sounds as if the “dual household” arrangement is going to be of relatively short duration. In my case, it’s a long-term thing. I’m moving to Seattle to work for Amazon.com (we must get together when you come up to Redmond!), but Merry’s staying in Boston. Her career isn’t really portable: too deeply embedded in in network of Boston area client, consulting, professional and teaching relationships. So we’re going to be spending a lot of time on planes, and using iChatAV!