Work is great! How many people say that?

Better yet, how many people working for a tech company these days say that??

Now while our stock needs a bit of help, I have the good blessings and fortune to work for and with some of the most amazing people I've met in my dozen or so years in the work force. It's one thing to let an employee move to the East Coast (for which I'm grateful!) and another one entirely when she shows up at work and says her FSO spouse has been PCS'd to a country where Sun doesn't have an office. It's been a fortuitous confluence of hard work (on many parts) and a great amount of Divine intervention which put the solution on which I work in a place where parts of the program needed to be leveraged out of HQ/US and into the rest of our geographically established markets. My moving was good for the solution, and for Sun too, I hope. They didn't have to hire and train a new employee on their leading solution, didn't have to move me here, and didn’t have to expend any additional expenses at all. Now I'm in the EU, happily working bizarre hours, mostly because I work with great people, on an interesting solution and feel very loyal to a company that is so supportive and committed to making customers, employees and the world a better place through technology. Soundcheezy?

Maybe, but I think that it's really true.

I've been in Nicosia for a little over a week, and am finishing my 4th full day back to work. I actually feel pretty well integrated into the time zone, although the 'spring ahead' time change this weekend didn't help! --and now California is 11 hours behind me-- but for this week only. Looks like my work hours will be about 10:00 - 19:00 or 20:00 most days. That way I get the most overlap with CET, GMT and a few hours with PST. 08:00 there is 18:00 here, so dinners are a bit messed up. Ralph has offered to cook on staff meeting days, which is great, and what the heck?! it's a great excuse to go out, right?? While it seems that other techies don't start until 9 or 10 at best, my entire group is very supportive of 08:00 and 09:00 meetings.

Things in the tech sector are always changing, and us at Sun, we seem to have an over developed case of ADHD, which makes the work environment very… dynamic. Never the less, I’m so thrilled to be able to keep this great job with an awesome set of people: Yasmin, Toni, Tami, Benno, Ken and many others (note: no last names, no fair poaching my team!). A great big THANK YOU and many special favors are indeed indebted to you from my heart and Ralph’s.