..After weeks of searching and scrambling for a new job in February before my temp contract was up at Genentech QCI, I managed to land a regular term position doing Environmental Monitoring and Bioburden after 3 long hours of interviewing. After working here in EMB for a week, I realized the training is insanely intense! Supposedly, to be a fully trained analyst in EMB takes 9 months! What a fast paced department. I had to take so much notes...took me a good hour to type up all of it...it felt like college..I'm learning something again...something I wanna do too! I am so thankful for the referrals that my friend and supervisor gave to my new manager. It was such a coincidence that my supervisor was very close to my new manager. The crappy news is that I am moving to a weekend shift...
Working on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays from 8-6:30pm....and then getting Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off...
My social life is basically gone! but a job is a job in this economy.. ...I guess what happened was during the interview, I told them I was willing to learn new stuff and work on as much stuff as I could, and the weekend manager wanted me to be in his group... Supposedly, the weekend people work on more assays, monitoring, and more cross-training in other depts. (so they say).
I'm happy I'm finally a blue badge at Genentech...the temp/regulars segregation was very apparent throughout the months I've worked here. It feels good to be able to take advantage of some benefits and be part of the Genentech Community. No more paying 140 a month just for medical insurance! More money to pay off my car now, and pay off the mortgage and bills. Finally some money I can spend on and save up. Finally get to eat out more!!!!
I'm gonna miss my QCI group a lot and B29. Too bad I didn't take a group picture. No more taking 2 hour lunches and watching Ironman 2. No more Jollibee runs at Tanforan!! :( My lunch hours are so strict now..
No more messing around with Achilles in the front lobby checking out accidents/chemical spills/gas leaks that happen every so often on the security cameras, or just chilling playing fuseball. Good times! Probably the chillest job in the last 10 months while being able to learn a lot of new things. (Sorry Achilles I just had to put this picture up of you...for good memories! haha!)
I'll definitely miss everyone else in my QCI Group. Gonna miss talking about random stuff in everyday life...the deuces...the gym workouts...the ladies...videogames..cussing at each other in cantonese...making up stupid names to call each other....blasting music in the inspection room and having our mini-karoake sessions! Gonna miss those free Genentech-paid-for Japanese buffet runs that we so often get in QCI. Very grateful to have had a such a good first out of college full-time job with a really cool supervisor and group. I guess theres always a time when everyone has to move on and do what they gotta do.
I won't be seeing these glass vials for awhile!
These last couple of months have been very surprising...just before the Genentech offer, I was about to be shipped out to South Korea to teach English. I cancelled the last minute once I found out I got the job at EMB. I had prepared all my paperwork and had just finished 2 rounds of interviews.
I would have been teaching at this place called Chungdahm Institute somewhere near Seoul. I was pretty desperate to travel to Asia and experience life there and Korea would've been just fine to fulfill my interest. I wasn't hearing back from any other job applications besides crappy temp jobs that were all the way in Oakland or Fremont, so this job seemed perfect. I guess everything happens for a reason, maybe I was destined to stay to help my sister pay off the mortgage...or maybe I'm meant to stick to doing something that was related to my major..who knows! I do wonder what would've happened right now if I was in Korea...maybe having the most awesome time of my life..?
Chungdahm Institute
Some other stuff happening in life...my sister just got her degree in California College of the Arts..so really happy for her...freelancing right now..i hope she finds a nice job soon!
Looking forward to the upcoming months...either I will hate it or love it...I hope I don't mess up or screw up big time at work...hopefully I'll be able to endure the training...tiring yet stimulating...excited to take days off again in July and head back down to socal again to see my socal buddies!
..To finish it off..I just had to post a video of my pets. Some of my friends didn't believe I had this much fish. IMMA PROVE YOU GUYS WRONG! haha...
I'm showing my Marine Bio side of me! They were the size of my pinky when I first got them! Its been like 6 years!
(the whining noise in the background is my dog wanting to play fetch..haha)
Sacramento is now officially my de-stressor spot. My parent's backyard is like one of the most relaxing spots. That's one thing I like about Sactown, the large amount of space you can get for such a cheap price.
You start to appreciate abundance of space when you've been living in a small living room for over a year without your own room.
haha...
