Sep 26 2007 at 10:38am
I Have a New Job!
Well, I can finally break the news! I’ve accepted a new position here at the University of Waterloo. For the past year and a bit I’ve been working on web sites for the Housing and Residences Department. My new job is in the department of Communications and Public Affairs, which handles all public communications for the University, including the University Home Page. I’ll basically be the lead web designer for the whole university!!
I’ll also do some consulting on other web projects for the University, work on some web apps they have developed, and do some outreach to other web designers and site maintainers. I might have a blog there as well (the last guy did), but I haven’t talked to my new boss yet about it so I’m not sure. That would mean that I’ll be spread a little thin, with writing here, at A Padded Cell, and the new blog. However, the new blog would have more of a focus on super beginner-level stuff while I would continue to focus on more advanced topics here. The new job will definitely open me up to a lot of new ideas which I could write about here.
Another great thing about the new job is that they use Macs — bye bye Windoze!! Well, obviously I’ll have to test on there once in awhile, but I won’t have to use it regularly!
This is the "other things on the go" that I was referring to in my previous post — I spent much of the end of August and the first part of September preparing my resume and portfolio to apply for the job. I designed my resume using Scribus, which I might post about later (it has an option to align text to a baseline grid — I’m not sure if other page layout programs do this but it was a godsend!)
Kimberly Blessing September 27th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Congratulations, Megan! The job sounds like a great new opportunity. Best of luck to you!
Sparkzy October 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I would be very interested in seeing your Scribus resume template. Count this comment as a vote to post it!
angela October 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
i would love to see the resume template, as well. i am using scribus and was sad to see there wasn’t one included.
Megan October 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Okay, great! I’ll post it when I get a chance to do a bit of write-up. I did a bit of a more designed format using the fly logo I have here on this site.
The key is to check the setting to align to baseline grid. I forget where that was, but it made a world of difference. So much easier to keep things lined up.
Zach July 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Did you ever end up posting your scribus resume template? I think it’s still in demand, as you are the top google resulte for that search.=)