The Graduate -or- Movin' on Up (Jeffersons Style)

It's been nearly three months since my last post, for those who can remember back that far. I didn't want to post until my next move has been set in motion. With graduation two weeks behind me, I received a job offer just this afternoon from Xerox Corporation!

I know, I know, you are probably wondering why I'm not with Intel Corp after talking so much about them in my past blogs. I've interned with them and worked on a student project with them and how do they reward me? With a hiring freeze and the expectation of future layoffs instead of hires. During my internship last summer, I saw that the company has a hefty amount of fat in terms of employees and often whole groups working on projects contributing little or none to the bottom line and certainly not enough to justify the firm's high salaries. But enough about them, and now more about my employer and benefactor, Xerox.

I'll be a Market Forecast Analyst for the N. American region. Pretty high position to get started out in. And the exposure within the company is really great too. I'll be working with people from marketing, finance, production, operations, etc. This means that, two or three years out, I'll have the ability to move to another position within the company outside of my forecasting role. This job sounds nice, but I'm really interested in getting into marketing. Yeah, I can see it now... I'll send out a few surveys and schedule a couple of focus groups before consulting with my data analyst to give me the latest on market trends and segments. Then I'll roll in to a forecasting/sales meeting and preach about how our clients demand more of this and less of that before I kick my feet up at Starbucks and marvel at the success of their competing stores -across the street from one another!- and sigh as I sip my no whip, double shot mocha frappuccino (Tiesto on the headphones, of course).

But that's all yet to come. For now, I'll be working with my nose to the grinst-- I mean, keyboard... building the connections that will promulgate my forthcoming meteoric rise to the top.

Yes, this blog is just an announcement: I GOT A JOB!
More fun and hijinks later. For now, it's celebration time.