Wednesday April 20, 2005

From Kebab Van to CEO of Sun Microsystems

My name is Emma, I live and work in Northampton, UK, and am probably at the bottom end of all Sun employees. Think of me as the kebab van at 2am, while Mr Schwartz is a 'McDonalds Extra' at lunchtime.

In other words, I am a Sun Support Engineer. Anyone in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand or Indonesia (APAC!), who have a problem with Sun kit or software, gets to speak to the lovely me on the phone while sorting it out.

I'm sure I have many satisfied customers, who will praise me to the heavens. I've recently decided to work a permanent night shift (the 5am starts for the India shift did not agree with me) and since then I have felt a lot more settled into the job. I've been here a year now and find it quite a fun, friendly environment to work in. There's always some weird or whacky fix some customer's managed to get themselves into, so it tends to never get boring.

Okay, so I'm not actually creating anything, I'm not working on a big project and pretty much every day I start again with a fresh slate. But I kind of like it, it's nice to be so stress-free and to feel like it's a job I can go home and forget about. I also get periods of free time where I can research my plans for global domination. Some day I'm sure I'll move on and up to more responsibility, but meanwhile I shall sit patiently, watching, contemplating my next move. ;)

I have blogged for many years now, but thought I would start up a Sun one, for reasons I would not like to fathom at this moment in time. My brain is very complex (aren't most females') and I wouldn't want to be here all day picking apart my irrational desire to do certain things. However I believe that one day it will be important to look back on my career. Who knows, I might be gone next week if I write something bad here (I read all the rules and quite frankly, I am petrified), but there's always the chance that some day, I'll be CEO of this marvellous company and everyone will be able to see that I started out at the very, very bottom of the pile. And won't that be cool?

So, hello there, hopefully I'll think of something interesting to say one of these days that will wow and amaze you. In the meantime I have a customer in New Zealand who would like a new power supply, please. Emma to the rescue!