Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Employeed

This is where I will be working for the next year: Research center for automatic controls at Seoul (National) University. The school is considered as the "Harvard" of Korea (or should I say Cornell?) and the campus is pretty nice. I will be working on the international conference for the International Federation of Automatic Controls, held in July 2008. Out of the total five job offers, this seemed like the best bet for a number of reasons:

1) Absolute hands on experience.
2) 9am - 6pm, no overtime, a lot of days off, flexible schedule compare to other companies.
3) No suit required.
4) Nice environment as the university is adjacent to a number of parks.
5) The professor I'll be working under is apparently very big in and out of this field.
6) I'll be working for 2,000 and more engineers - what could beat that? :P
7) One year long project - this could be both good and bad. No job security in the long term but gives me an option to take a break or look for something new without the commitment pressure.
8) I may get to travel a few times to Europe/U.S. at some point during the year.

Hopefully I will be able to add more to the list as I start working on July 2! I didn't expect to start working so soon, but this seems like a great choice as of now. New opportunity is always exciting :)

1 comment:

MK said...

Congrats! Sounds like a sweet place...and yeah, Sucks isn't a good superlative ;)