New Opportunities

Hello everybody,

I hope you all have had a good past few weeks and are making it through the quarantine safely. I apologize for my irregular posting schedule everything has been so wild. I do have some exciting news though. I’ve been hired by Bungie as a Contract Generalist Tester. I’m sad to leave Microsoft but I think Bungie will be a great place for me to grow and learn more. I’ll be on a team that directly makes content and I’ll be testing it. It should be a great way to learn and grow in my field.

While I love these new opportunities, they are good and bad. While I’ll be meeting and working with a lot of new people, I’ll also be leaving some people behind. I’ve added people on social media and will hopefully be able to keep in touch. This also comes at a relatively bad time due to the pandemic. I’ll be leaving my work in a bad time, but it has to be done. I can only hope we can end the quarantine safely soon. This will hopefully allow us to return to work safely soon and be in a better place to be in the office.

Well till next time you guys. I hope that you have a good week and that I have more to tell you.

Experimenting and Learning

Hello Everybody,

This last week has been pretty interesting. I’ve been working from home which has been very interesting. I’m having to learn better ways to make sure people are on track while also focusing on improving communication and time tracking. I’ve been lucky with working from home. I have all sorts of tools at my disposal and my work translates easily to working from home. I think it will also help me when we return to the office. Every day this quarantine persists it allows us more opportunities to grow and build our skills. Sadly, it also means more and more people will be met with consequences. I both am ready for the quarantine to end and enjoying it.

I’ve been using this quarantine to experiment with some of my hobbies. I’ve learned a lot about 3D printing namely and some of the work that goes into it. I just wish I knew more people that printed so I could ask for their help in maintaining a printer. For instance, I felt my prints were coming out with issues and was worried about the belts that drive the printer. The only problem is I don’t know how tight the belts should be. So, I’ve been experimenting and learning more about how the printers work. I’ve also been painting more of the models I’ve printed. I need to get more decorations for the landscapes, but I’m getting better and better.

Well till next week you guys. I hope to have some exciting stuff to discuss for next week.

Working from Home

Hello Everybody,

I apologize for not posting the last few weeks, but everything kind of exploded. These past few weeks have been both stressful and nice. With everything that’s been going on with me health wise I was almost forced to quit my job. Luckily, they declared we would be working from home. So then that began, and my life changed again. I gained the benefits of working from home and being able to hang out with my family more. However, I also gained the stress of work at home and now it was harder to separate work and home. I feel this quarantine has been hard on a lot of us. I’m lucky where I can work from home and have different hobbies I like to do at home. I’m also perfectly fine not socializing with people in person. I know many people who are not that lucky. I have close friends and family with no jobs now or have been hit hard by pandemic. I’m hoping to find some more ways to hang out with friends and family during this pandemic.

This pandemic has also allowed me to spend more time on my favorite pass times. I’ve been working on my models and painting. I made some lovely looking wells and then also made some less lovely bandits. I also have caught up on my shows. I watched all of Star Trek the Next Generation and the Star Trek Nemesis movie. I’ve been wanting to watch Picard, so I had to get a bit of the backstory as I had never watched the entire series. I’m also going to be working on some review’s as I haven’t done one of those in so long. I’m trying to get better of putting more time into writing and creating.

Well til next time you guys. Stay safe, and I hope to have some good stories for you.