My Life In Development
And now back to my thesis. Er, I mean blog.
I think it's been something like three weeks since I started at the new job. So far, so good. Great co-workers, especially my supervisor -- it's a real pleasure to be able to work with and learn from someone who is so knowledgable in her field. Unfortunately, I'm not much help with the big grants right now because I'm so unfamiliar with the details of development in the nonprofit health field, but she's okay with that, and is fully willing to feed my inner nerd with as much background reading and I can take, along with trainings, meetings, and even a few baby grants to practice on. With events or PR, she's hands-off; I've thrown together enough of those that she's happy to think about other things.
Our CEO is a mix of go-go-go enthusiasm and down-to-earth charm; very straightforward, apparently impossible to rattle, and very focused on her work. Also a pleasure to work with. And I'm starting to get to work with some of the other people who will be really helpful with the grants -- our CFO, Program Director, Nurse Health Educator, etc. And IT, of course -- without them, we're all on typewriters. And they know the ins and outs of the reporting system.
My parents came to take me out to lunch a week or so ago, and they like the area. It's a lot like East San Jose, except there's a real lack of food diversity in the immediate vicinity. It's basically either Mexican or McDonalds. They ended up taking me over the freeway to eat at the Four Seasons. And, like in certain parts of the East Side, I wouldn't go walking around by myself at night.
Fortunately, foodwise, we have a very large refrigerator and a good microwave, so it's easy to bring lunch (and breakfast, and snacks, and... hey, a food drawer is important!) And we're close to the freeway, so when, say, I just HAVE to have Vietnamese food (and not the chi-chi/ritzy fusion food you find on University -- $12 for lemon grass chicken?), I can run down to Mt. View. It's not super-convenient since with side streets and parking it's about a 30-40 minute round trip to get take-out, but it's nice to get out rather than eat at my desk.
Overall, it's been a good move. I actually almost went into development a couple of years ago around when my first Legislator was terming out, but had some issues with the nonprofit after doing a little more reading up on it. Plus, for something like this you have to really be into the subject, and I was just kind of so-so on that one. And then I ended up staying with the Legislature, which in the end was a valuable experience (although I could use a lot of other words to describe it), and when you can at least say that, it's all still good.
I think it's been something like three weeks since I started at the new job. So far, so good. Great co-workers, especially my supervisor -- it's a real pleasure to be able to work with and learn from someone who is so knowledgable in her field. Unfortunately, I'm not much help with the big grants right now because I'm so unfamiliar with the details of development in the nonprofit health field, but she's okay with that, and is fully willing to feed my inner nerd with as much background reading and I can take, along with trainings, meetings, and even a few baby grants to practice on. With events or PR, she's hands-off; I've thrown together enough of those that she's happy to think about other things.
Our CEO is a mix of go-go-go enthusiasm and down-to-earth charm; very straightforward, apparently impossible to rattle, and very focused on her work. Also a pleasure to work with. And I'm starting to get to work with some of the other people who will be really helpful with the grants -- our CFO, Program Director, Nurse Health Educator, etc. And IT, of course -- without them, we're all on typewriters. And they know the ins and outs of the reporting system.
My parents came to take me out to lunch a week or so ago, and they like the area. It's a lot like East San Jose, except there's a real lack of food diversity in the immediate vicinity. It's basically either Mexican or McDonalds. They ended up taking me over the freeway to eat at the Four Seasons. And, like in certain parts of the East Side, I wouldn't go walking around by myself at night.
Fortunately, foodwise, we have a very large refrigerator and a good microwave, so it's easy to bring lunch (and breakfast, and snacks, and... hey, a food drawer is important!) And we're close to the freeway, so when, say, I just HAVE to have Vietnamese food (and not the chi-chi/ritzy fusion food you find on University -- $12 for lemon grass chicken?), I can run down to Mt. View. It's not super-convenient since with side streets and parking it's about a 30-40 minute round trip to get take-out, but it's nice to get out rather than eat at my desk.
Overall, it's been a good move. I actually almost went into development a couple of years ago around when my first Legislator was terming out, but had some issues with the nonprofit after doing a little more reading up on it. Plus, for something like this you have to really be into the subject, and I was just kind of so-so on that one. And then I ended up staying with the Legislature, which in the end was a valuable experience (although I could use a lot of other words to describe it), and when you can at least say that, it's all still good.
posted by Sophia & Sienna's Mom at 11:43 AM
2 Comments:
So just how good are $17 hamburgers?
..."a lot of other words to describe it"...
ah ha, we're waiting!
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