Yes, as several of you have pointed out, I have yet to tell you about my new job. This is mostly due to the fact that I don't have as much free time available thanks to...that's right, the new job...
I've had this job for over 2 months now. It's for a small IT company, located in Central, Hong Kong. It's basically a project management position, with the work changing as new projects come up. For the first 6 weeks I was working out of the Hong Kong airport. Now I am gearing up ( i.e. doing lots of reading and research) for another project that should in gear by the time we get back from our vacation in Hawaii.
The project at the airport was to install over a hundred check-in workstations in a new terminal. Due to many delays, this part never actually happened by the time my part of the project came to an end. However, I did get to do the following:
- Installed servers, switches, kvm's into 2 server rooms. This involved the frustrating and sometimes painful job of reconfiguring the racks to fit equipment of various sizes. If you've ever worked with caged nuts, you know what I mean. It's basically like putting together Ikea furniture in hell.
- Helped to prepare and image over 100 workstations, involving installing over 100 pci cards.
- Moved heavy equipment back and forth and back and forth again...to different areas of the airport as well as the server rooms in the new terminal, which was still a construction site, by the way.
- I had the pleasure of having to coordinate deliveries and work done by contractors...both of whom usually spoke very little english and didn't have a good sense of time management/time estimation.
