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Actually, I take that back.  I don’t have a new job, I have a career!

What’s the difference you might ask?

A job is something you go to every day to earn a paycheck.  Flipping burgers at McyDy’s and loading boxes at UPS are jobs.  You come to work and earn a paycheck.  It’s not something you like to do and it’s not something you dream of doing for the rest of your life.

A career is something you dream of doing.  It’s work that you’ve planned to do by going to college or some other educational program.

Without further ado, I’m happy to announce that starting on the 14th I will begin my career as a Programmer/IT Person for Corporate Research International.

Simply put, CRI is a market research company.  Companies hire them to do the so called “mystery shopping.” People are paid to go our and eat at a restaurant, buy something at a gas station, etc.  They then fill out a report for CRI about the place.  All the data is then compiled into reports and stats that the companies can use to do whatever they want.

CRI was recently featured in Inc Magazines list of the 500 fastest growing private companies.  Here’s the quote:

What it does: Call center monitoring and mystery shopping for companies such as Papa John’s and K-Mart. Why it’s growing: Its fastest-growing area is integrated voice and Web response, which sends consumers to a website or toll-free number printed on the back of their receipts and surveys them on service.

Anyways, I’m coming onboard as a Programmer/IT Person.  For the most part the job is about developing the websites for the customers to fill out surveys and clients to view the compiled reports.  However, the job isn’t just sitting in a cubicle hacking code all day.  You also do all the general IT work for the company like: system administration, providing tech support for all the employees, networking the offices, whatever else there happens to be.

It’s a very fast paced and active job and that’s just one of the many reasons I’m excited about working there.  I’m glad to finally have a job that works my brain for a change.

I’m just such a happy guy today!