January 16, 2006

From contractor to employee...

In late 2004, I went from being a wannabe software engineer to a real software engineer. I was a contractor working through a placement agency. For the last seven months, I've been working through the placement agency at ManyOne Networks, Inc.

Effective today, I am now working directly for ManyOne, as a software developer focused primarily on Mozilla. Not only does this mean a very nice salary bump, but it means that I've made my dreams come true. I'm doing what I love doing, and I'm getting paid to do it.

In case you're wondering what my plans are to do with the additional money, they include:

  • Moving into my own apartment in Scotts Valley
  • Buying a Mac for Mozilla work
  • Starting college (yes, I've never been, and now I won't owe anything when I get out)
  • Shoving some money into my Roth IRA
  • Finishing the donation to a church that I gave a verbal agreement to

The most significant part about being hired directly is that I'm no longer hourly. While this can mean very long hours on occasion, it also means that on other occasions, I can spend time working on mozilla.org code at the office freely. The goal is to make our corporate product better, of course, but if we can share the improvements with SeaMonkey (and later, Firefox), so much the better.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Posted by WeirdAl at January 16, 2006 10:07 AM
Comments

Looks like your perserverance has paid off.

Congratulations!

Posted by: anon at January 17, 2006 10:31 AM

<cough> Matthew 6:1-4? :-)

(From Alex: The point is well taken, and never ignored. I assure you, being one of the nouveau riche is something I am totally unaccustomed to.)

Posted by: Gerv at January 17, 2006 4:05 PM