A New Beginning

My first week at DSTA! I can't show you any photos cos I'm not allowed to bring any photo capturing devices in. :P

Contrary to my beliefs, things moved pretty fast here on my first day. Guess they've had so many new recruitments that they've really streamlined the process. I had my staff photo taken in the morning, along with a stationery pack, wind-breaker, polo tee, then issued with a table, and a few cabinets. Collected my staff pass in the afternoon and my own laptop too! It's a dual Core 2, 2GHz machine with 1GB RAM. Woohoo! Cool stuff! :)

Met a lot of people on my first day (about 50 I think), and I only remembered a couple of names. :P

Initially I thought they had taken in the wrong person as I was supposed to do system design and hardware procurement on top of development. In fact, development was more like a side task. I later realised that the job scope of a senior software engineer here and back at my old company's quite different.

Well, it's kinda stressful here, doing things I'm foreign to, but I guess it's a good learning experience. :) There's a lot of specialised stuff here, so that means a sharper learning curve I guess. :)

At the end of the day, it's a brand new beginning! Time to do well and excel here, and avoid making the same mistakes that I've commited. :)