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May 30

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June will be a rollercoaster month for us.

After eight years (right out of college) at Gordon Food Service, I’ll be starting a new job at SourceForge next week. GFS was a wonderful place to work and I will miss my co-workers, but as I’ve heard the Gordons say, “if you’re not growing, you’re dying.” The SourceForge job is an opportunity to grow my technical skills, to push myself by trying something completely new; I’m looking forward to the challenge.

Fortunately moving is not one of the changes: I’ll be working from home with occasional trips to their Ann Arbor offices. I’m also hoping to find a coworking opportunity in Grand Rapids to keep a social aspect in my work week.

About the time I’m settling into the new job, we’ll be welcoming Baby 2.0 into our lives. Kelly’s due date is June 15. Baby 1.0’s 95th percentile head on his 10th percentile body required an emergency c-section, so this time around will be a scheduled c-section. After the first, Kelly was told to not lift anything heavier than her baby, consequently I’ll be doing the heavy lifting (including two-year-old O) while she recovers.

Further up, further in!

written by Kyle \\ tags: baby, career, gfs, sourceforge

LiaAnn

Congrats on the new job! How exciting! Change is always a little scary but I can definitely say it's also a great learning and growing opportunity! Tell Kelly good luck in the home stretch! (Coincidentally, number 16 of my neices and nephews is due in June, too! Can't wait! She'll be in the same grade as Maddie :-) )

Dan Diephouse

Congrats on the new job and forthcoming baby!

I could possibly be up for a coworking arrangement.... email/IM me :-)

Ed

Way to go ol buddy! Sourceforge earns you some serious bragging rights. I'm impressed. GFS will miss you no doubt. I'm sure you'll appreciate a little less commuting and having the chance to work at home. Are you going to see a broader range of projects to work on?

Kyle Adams

Our current project is "broader" simply by virtue of being completely new territory for me. With that said, I also suspect there will also be more opportunities to try out other "new-to-me" things once our current project is finished.