New Year…New Life…New Home…New Job
So for the first time in my life I am no longer living in a major city of the country I am residing. The current location I chose after considering multiple tradeoffs where travel time to work took priority.
So I moved to this place in Hemel Hempstead (Apsley) which is just outside Greater London and takes an hour or so by train which is something I really didn’t like. I moved here on Sunday (a week ago) and suddenly everything changed. Living alone in a 1-bed flat which I graciously selected to satisfy my needs of large space is a bit hard for two reasons. One, it gets lonely. Two, its expensive (but .. well.. I’ll be earning right?). Slowly I am getting used to the place..but more on it later..
Next came the big Monday, 4th of Jan..my first day at work (of my first job). Just to remind I have been drafted in as a Digital ASIC Designer at Imagination Technologies, the company that virtually drives the graphics market of portable devices. Seven other guys were also joining in on the same day with one in the same design team as me. The day went past like a breeze with intro sessions, form filling, setting up the computers and all that sort. I was given a Linux box and a PC, couple of monitors, a nice chair, some stationary and then we (me and the other newbie) had lunch. An introductory session with the manager then followed who explained some of the work his team has done in simple words and the day ended. Second day was boring and we spent time drinking coffee again and again UNTIL we were asked to read something that just was a bit hard and we sat until 7 instead of 5.30 to understand that. There was also a group meeting that we attended on that day where progress on the projects were discussed and I didn’t get anything what was said except that perhaps there was a stringent deadline to meet. The next three days were quite good…some of the colleagues taught us how to do little things and we kept practising. Using linux is also something I have to get used to in order to run the simulations and also must be able to write some scripts to perform some tasks. It will take time. But the last three days were good in terms of learning although I did a lot of screw ups while setting the environment variables in linux (whatever they do 
). On Wednesday I was given my extension phone which I’m yet to figure out how to use. I traveled to central London for the weekend and now its almost over. I hope the next week will be good too. An attraction is that one of my classmate from Imperial will also be joining on Monday … but in a different design team…so it should be fun.
Oh and something really interesting that happened on Wednesday. I was sitting in the morning as I checked in early and one of my colleagues who interviewed me came up to me and gave me a cap of USB stick. I was a bit confused until she reminded me that I left this when I came for interview about 6 months ago! LOL
Ok…With this I also announce my return to the blogging world! Stay tuned for tonnes of complaints and whines 
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OHHH so i get it she hired you cuz she had to return ur USB cap ….. o_O
welcome back…. now this time stick around … acha
lol i never thought abt that
Ohhhhhhhh, so you really HAVE to work in design teams as an engineer when you’re in the working world.
Haha, and I thought the course that taught us the ethics and all for that ,was for nothing.
Khair, nice to know you’re enjoying yourself.
goood luck!
u only work in design if u want
ethics? yahan kahan ethics agaye?
Good luck, buddy!
Some advice (even though you didn’t ask for it, but what the hell
)…
- Your nice chair is your most precious possession in the office. Protect it!
- Sit late if you have to, but don’t ever make it a routine.
- Screwing up in Linux is fun, so stop the ‘:razz:’ smilies.
- Keep the USB cap safe.
Thanks
Ok the first advice is really deep 
And kinda motivating too 
I screwed up in Linux again today….lol…USB cap safe? why?
Yeah keep the USB cap safe incase u need to find another job
agreed with that chair thing unless office environment there is different than Pakistans
Best of Luck for ur new professional life.
the general feeling abt the environment is very positive .. hopefully it will remain that way…thanks for the wishes
Hey,
Dont u have like a fan page or group on Facebook???I
lol why wud i have that?
Congratulations
you’ll be telling us the inside stories about graphics in portable devices now ‘eh? May Allah grant you success at every step in life!
Thanks!
Yeah whatever stays outside the confidentiality policy can be told
many congrats mate… may success follow you whichever path you tread in life… enjoy while it lasts… life that is…
thanks…oh and they havent blocked social media at the office so i wont need those portable apps
so you got a lotta new stuff, get a new wife too!! hahahaha
New wife? Old bhi thi kiya? Waise really happy for you! I know the feeling of sitting there on your first full-time job. It’s pretty awesome.