Just turned in my 2-week Peaceout Notice!

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78) 02/17/2016 at 10:54 • Filed to: None

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After about 10 years of work (in just 4.5 calendar years, lol), I’m leaving my job for something at a much larger company that will allow me to work from home. Not only will this cut down on my gas, tires, dry cleaning, etc, but it’s also a pretty nice raise and the chance to work on a team I can actually learn from — as opposed to being a one-man show for most of my current job. Plus it was a decent raise, over 15%.

When I say much larger employer, I’m going from a place that employs about 1,500 people in 5 states to one that employs almost 300,000 in 40+ states. And I’ll be going from a dysfunctional team of a few, to a very established team of 10+, all of who work from home offices and remote locations. That will definitely take some getting used to.

I’ll wait to see if the work computer block Jalopnik, but hopefully not. There’s always iphone!!

64Mali > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 10:56

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Congrats and good luck on the new venture!

$kaycog > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 10:59

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Best wishes in your new endeavor!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:00

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Healthcare SQL DBA?

EL_ULY > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:01

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Duuuuude. Good luck with everything sir. Hopefully there won’t be any blockage from the wise words you share with us everyday :]

Ash78, voting early and often > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 02/17/2016 at 11:11

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Not a bad guess — bank financial modeling/reporting. I get to do a fraction of my current job, but at a deeper level, and learn a lot more about Access, SQL, and Tableau on the job.

The guy who recruited me used to work with me. Let’s just say if he can excel at the job, I won’t have issues :D

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:11

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good luck!

MUSASHI66 > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:12

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Well, you will work from home, so....get a cheap laptop for Oppo only :D

Good luck and congrats!

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:17

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You’re going to work for Gawker?!

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/17/2016 at 11:20

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Technically just working for Doug DeMuro. But you’d already know that if you followed me on Twitter...

BeaterGT > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:21

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Sounds awesome, best of luck.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:25

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I don’t Twit.

For Sweden > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 11:27

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We’d like Wells Fargo to sponsor Oppositelock, just sayin’

Ash78, voting early and often > For Sweden 02/17/2016 at 11:41

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I have no idea who Wells Fargo is. For the record.

Brian, The Life of > Ash78, voting early and often 02/17/2016 at 12:54

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Congrats Ash! I bought you a new commuter whip to celebrate the new gig :)

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Ash78, voting early and often 06/24/2016 at 09:59

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How’s the job working out? You should be in the swing of things now.

I was going to ask in the other thread, but this is a more appropriate place.

Ash78, voting early and often > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 06/24/2016 at 10:44

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Thanks for asking...so far, so good. It’s weird being remote, and it’s a steep learning curve (about 80% different than my old job, but in the same field). The people I work with are 16-18 hours a day, 6 days a week, which I just can't do. But I wouldn’t trade all the extra time with the family for anything. I may have replaced my commute with longer hours, but at least I’m always here. Lunch yesterday: an hour at the pool! (Full disclosure: first lunch break in a week)