So, I guess I should mention on here that I've started a second part-time job. Since I end up doing so much of nothing these days, it being summer and I not having any classes. I decided I should find a part-time job to occupy my time and bring in some extra income. I interviewed twice with a local internet startup company called Mangia, and they offered me the position. So I started there on Thursday afternoon.

I'm doing web development work utilizing the Adobe Flex framework. I have never used Flex before, so I'm spending the first bit learning it. Overall it's fairly similar, it has a layout system much like QT or GTK, and then you connect it to the backend of Java using Actionscript. So I mostly just need to learn syntax changes and quirks of the system. I ordered a book from Amazon today which will hopefully be helpful in bringing me up to speed.

I don't know how much I can say about the company, since it's still getting setup and I've signed an NDA. So to prevent unintentionally breaching the NDA contract, I won't say anything about what we do. I'll let you know when we release more public information. The company is still small, about 9 employees, but I'm enjoying it so far. All the people are nice and laid back and fun to work with. Part of my first day was spent playing Wii while waiting for someone to arrive who could setup my account on the server, so that was fun.

So between this and my thesis work I'm officially working ~40 hours a week. It will be nice to have a real income.

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