I’ve seen several folks on Mastodon doing these “Weekly Notes” type posts for a while now. The one I see the most often do it is Joel and you can find their blog here: JoelChrono.xyz that has some great content on it.
This first edition of my Weekly Notes won’t be for a specific 7 days really. I’m going to go back to September 25th and go to yesterday, October 6th. From there I’ll get on a regular schedule hopefully but there are just a couple of things I wanted to share that are super exciting to me personally.
September 25th – 27th
To preface a bit, I had been interviewing for a new job at a company called Skylight about a week or two prior to these dates. I was in the interview process to join their customer support team, or as they choose to call it, their Concierge Team. I had now made it to the final part of the process which was an in-person interview. Skylight decided that mine would be with my direct boss whom I interviewed with on the second round. This would mean I’d get to fly to Minneapolis to meet her in person and do the interview. Well, the meeting, as these aren’t really interviews at this point in the process.
I was super excited and quickly found out that I’d be staying at the Radisson Blu at the Mall of America. The MOA was somewhere I had always wanted to visit and check out, but had never gotten the chance. I was equally as excited to travel and to also meet my boss whom I had a great interview/meeting with a week or so prior.
I flew in Thursday morning so I’d have the majority of the day to spend at the mall and just enjoying it as much as possible. My meeting would be on Friday from 10am – 1:30pm, which also included lunch. Again, this was more of a meeting and just a get to know you in person and provide me with an offer more than anything else.
The boss and I started with coffee at Caribou Coffee and we sat down and conversation happened so naturally and was absolutely enjoyable in every way possible. She showed me the Calendar and a few things that it can do and I got to play around with it as well. Then it was off to lunch, where more great conversations were had, then near the end of lunch she officially offered me the position in which I had applied for. I of course accepted which made me an official employee of Skylight.
Let me tell you this, MOA was mind blowing. This place was so huge and then some. Several actual roller coasters inside the mall, big name restaurants and it was three stories. If you ever get a chance to go, I highly recommend it.
September 30th – October 1st
Just a few short days later, Skylight wanted me to fly out to Pittsburgh for a day of training if possible, even though my tentative start date wasn’t until October 20th(that’s now October 14th). I agreed since I had a flexible enough job at HST Pathways. This means I’d fly in on Tuesday at some point and would need to leave Wednesday evening after the training was over which was scheduled to end at 3pm.
Oddly, this training was really for the 12 part-time people they had just hired, but they asked me if I could go just so I could get some hands-on time with the Calendar and just get a basic understanding of things. It was quite the learning experience and a ton of fun.
I got to meet two out of the other three people that I had interviewed with which made it all worth it. I even had dinner with my boss, the supervisor of the 12 member part-time crew who I had interviewed with and one other lady on Tuesday night. Again, super fun to meet the folks I’d soon be working with. Not to mention getting to meet all 12 of the part-time individuals, who were all super friendly and fun to talk to in their own ways.
Needless to say, even though I’ve said it above several times, I’m very excited about this new journey especially given the fact that I’ll be working with my former boss of nearly 9 years while I was at Nova Launcher and Branch. While he and I will be working in different areas, we’ll have a lot of interaction and stuff and I know we’re going to make some awesome things happen. The future is truly bright at Skylight.
October 2nd – 6th
The rest of the time wasn’t near as exciting as all of that. I have been at home since getting back late on October 1st and there’s no more traveling until likely January, which will be a all-hands type meet up for Skylight. Definitely something I’m excited about.
Gaming, Gaming, Gaming
What I have done during this time was play some video games since I’m off from work until October 14th. So what have I been playing you ask? Mainly it’s been Borderlands 4. I’ve been playing since the day it was released back on September 12th and I finally finished the main campaign over the past few days. However, this is where the game really begins as there’s so much to do at this point.
I’ve also been play Hollow Knight: Silksong here and there as well as Megabonk. Both are super fun and I can’t wait to get back to Silksong and really dive in and hopefully complete that game as well. For now, that’s about I’m playing, as those are taking up pretty much all of my spare time.
Blogging
As is often the case, I haven’t done much writing on the site over the past few weeks, but I have written a review for the Redragon Antonium K728 Pro Keyboard, though that was back on September 18th, so shouldn’t really be mentioned in this post since it doesn’t start until September 25th.
I did write another blog post, and this one was just done yesterday called How To Quickly Lock And Secure Your Mac. I of course would appreciate it if you’d check out either of them, or even any of the other posts on the site and leave some comments on things of interest to you.
Final Thoughts
Again, this is my first attempt at this Weekly Posts stuff, so I hope you find it interesting. I don’t normally do to much other than work and sleep, with the occasional video game thrown in there, but I’m going to try and stick with it as best I can. Just need to find the right schedule for it that works for me.
Feel free to leave a comment below with any suggestions on accomplishing that or what you’d like to know if I do or don’t do during the week. I’m certainly up for anything to make this post as interesting and informative to each of you as I possibly can.
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