This past week was my first at a new job. I now work for BubbleUp. We’re a web startup focused on websites, web applications and internet marketing for the music industry. I’m very excited about it and having a blast so far. We’re a small company, headquartered in Houston, and I’m working from home and coffee shops here in Nashville. I’m 1/2 of the company’s Nashville presence right now, which we hope to expand in the future into an actual physical office and additional employees. It’s nice to be a part of a young, fast company after so many years as a cog in the academic machine. I’m working as their Systems Administrator as well as doing development work, and it is my return to some regular programming responsibilities that has me the most excited. It has been too long since that was a daily part of my job.
The first month at any new job is always very busy as you try to get up to speed on a new company, a new set of systems, and a new set of expectations. BubbleUp is a very small company and so that has been greatly magnified for me. So if my contribution here is a little bit light, it’s only because I’m working my butt off! But for a change, I’m happy to be doing that.
