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The Construction Engineer position is open again until January 2, 2013: get on it!  There's definitely more than enough work to keep everyone busy.  Most of us new hires feel like we're getting close to a full workload already, although we also feel like it's taking us twice as long to do things as it should.  We'll fix that with experience, though, right?  RIGHT?  Yeah.

The nomadic nature of the job seems to apply even to people working in DC.  People who are visiting from a post often migrate between offices to use the computers of people who are out on training, on temporary duty, or just in the bathroom.  There are occasional reorganizations of the DC-posted as well that have resulted in permanent people moving around a bit too.  Some rumors suggest our floor will soon be "right-sized" to make the cubicles the correct (read: smaller) sizes.  I didn't take this job for the cubicle, so it's not a big deal to me.  Although I have to admit that the potential for getting booted has made me plan ahead, including affecting even how I organize files on "my" computer.  These are things I never thought of - and not exactly of major consequence - it's just all part of the adventure.

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Hemlow Island - Nova Scotia, Canada - $30k CAD and it's yours! (Well, maybe just one of its eight lots)

(This post written while listening to The BoDeans Good Work.)