The Holtonian

Workin away

Not too much is happening down here in ATL, just enjoyed my morning French Roast… tasty. I am keeping busy at work, still adjusting to the entirely new and different culture, one where downtime is filled with training and learning, not socializing or internet surfing. Most of my time is spent just researching so far. I've researched some potential projects I am most likely going to be staffed on, researched how Deloitte views the "health care crisis," read a few online books from their library (One about consumer driven health care, which was as boring as it sounds, and one on SAP… which I am just reading for the heck of it), and I've also taken pretty much all the training that I was supposed to have done with in the first six months.

A couple of co-workers asked me why I am here so early and late as well. Frankly its because my family is up in Chattanooga and I don't have internet at the grand-parents-in-law's house. I get here early mostly just to beat traffic, the closer you get to traveling around 8 to 9 AM the worse your drive is going to be. I'd rather wake up dang early and have a short commute than wake up later and have a dang long commute. Plus when the fam and I are finally down and settled I'm going to want to get home at a decent hour which means putting in early here to achieve an early departure.

Proper family time is important. At CIGNA a few times I had some late nights during the busy season and it was depressing coming home and spending 30 minutes or so with the baby before her bed time, not to mention not seeing the wife as much. Proper wife time is of the utmost importance as well.

The travel time that they communicated with this job so far has not materialized, I don't even see any on the horizon. Healthcare seems to be a good niche as its pretty standard and predictable, plus most of my clients appear to be in the southeast, thus hopefully no travel to Minnesota in the middle of winter, hopefully.