Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 24th, 2011 in WorkBeing a Federal Employee means being a part of something much bigger than many people, including myself, can really comprehend. The FAA employs about 50,000 people, with ~5,000 of them working here in Oklahoma. Susan supervises people in a dozen different states; her supervisor lives in a different state, too. My supervisor works in Oklahoma, and while I don’t manage other people (Thank God; I’m not all that great at managing myself!), I deal with networks and servers and people spanning across all fifty states and into five or six remote countries. Sometimes what I do feels pretty important, although… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on August 6th, 2010 in WorkSorry about the lack of updates. For an entire week, I’ve been trying to come up with the right words to explain just how happy I am. I started a new job this week … and by “new job”, I mean “the job I did for almost ten years.” It’s the job I left last September — and now, I’m back. When I was younger I thought people only left jobs because they were unhappy, but over the past year I have learned that that’s not always the case. For essentially fifteen years I worked as a government contractor providing… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on July 12th, 2010 in WorkBlogging is a funny thing. Sometimes when I don’t post for a while it’s because nothing interesting is going on in my life. And sometimes when I don’t post for a while, it’s because things are so crazy that I haven’t had time to sit down and sort my thoughts out yet before I type them up. My recent stretch of silence is due to the latter. The last time I quit a job was in September of 2009, when I left my old department (as a contractor) and moved to my current department, as a federal employee. My ideal… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on September 15th, 2009 in WorkToday, I did something I haven’t done in over a decade: I turned in my two weeks notice at work. I often tell people I’ve been working at the FAA since 1995, which is really a half-truth. It’s true I’ve been working at the FAA since 1995, but save for 18 months back in the late 90s, I haven’t been employed by them. Instead, I’ve been working as a contractor for a series of contracting companies, providing services for the FAA. Being a contractor isn’t embarrassing; it’s just easier to say “I work at the FAA” than to hash out… (read more)
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