# Updates

- Author: Kojin Glick
- Published: 2024-10-27
- Canonical: https://www.kojinglick.com/blog/update-2024

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Been a minute, eh? I feel like it has.

I had three serious looking jobs, one of which I have now. 

I started the year as essentially a research monkey staring down the barrel of automation. The worst part is when I offered to help them automate, they gave me a banana and reminded me how shiny my computer was. I lasted around a month.

For the next week after that, I was driving into San Francisco to do a trial week with a bio-tech company as a software engineer. Bombed that harder than I could imagine. But I still got paid $500 per day. It's strange feeling both like I messed up, but still compensated at a higher annualized rate than I ever have.

Finally, I've settled where I expected to, and really where my skills belong. I've been working at CTEC full-time for a little more than six months. I do anything involving computers, which is the role I want. I spin up databases, create web-based services, do basic network analysis and statistics to back up what I'm saying.

I'm happy here. Took me a long time to rebuild my confidence in my abilities after the week of high-status failure. But as the season reminds us, I was born a varmint, and a varmint I will always be. Nothing wrong with that.