new day, new job

[djxatlanta]

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[djxatlanta]

Yes, it's an incredible opportunity - I felt honored even just to interview with them!

Good Luck

[anonymous]

I know you will do well today. Um, I mean you will do good today. There now you can correct my grammer. BCJ

Re: Good Luck

[djxatlanta]

Oh, dear... I'm not sure who BCJ is... but thank you!!

[pdsexton]

Congratulations! The Weather Channel is one of the few channels that I can still stomach to watch, though the mute button is used quite a bit.

Maybe you can get the inside scoop on just what the hell happened to Jim Cantore's head. That man used to be so cute, now he looks like an angry penis...and not in a good way.

By the way, since I don't know you well, what is it you will be doing there....just curious?

what I'll be doing

[djxatlanta]

I made a journal entry a day or two ago mentioning what I'd be doing, but in case you're unable to read that entry because of permission restrictions, I'll be largely responsible for maintaining and updating climate.weather.com and creating new sites to cross-promote new TV specials and documentaries that the Weather Channel airs. It's just my first day, so I don't have a full grasp of my exact duties yet, as it's a state of confusion here because this site just went live this past week.

Re: what I'll be doing

[pdsexton]

That sounds like a truly great job. My dabblings (and degree) in computer graphics and web design never got me anywhere, so more power to you.

I'm sometimes a slackass with reading LJ, so the entry may have slid under my radar. Look forward to maybe meeting you someday as we seem to know several folks in common.

Re: what I'll be doing

[djxatlanta]

Actually, I don't have a degree in web design! I went to college originally for space sciences. In my junior year I switched to liberal arts, and I graduated with a bachelor's in "applied liberal studies," and I was only one or two credits short of minoring in physics. I stumbled into this whole web development/design career quite by accident in 1995 when the first graphic web browser came out. I had fun reverse-engineering web sites to see how they were constructed. Two years later, my then-boyfriend (who just moved back to Athens this summer, BTW) convinced me to leave behind the world of retail management and try my hand in the web industry. The rest is history.

[pagerbear]

You will get naked pictures of Jim Cantore, right? Is that part of the package?

[djxatlanta]

I think that's something you'd have to work out with his wife!

[bendawg]

I'm so glad they "de-squished" the Weather Channel on our TV system (the TV Guide bottom was below). Are you connected to the music at all? It seems so "techno" during the local updates all of a sudden. :)

[djxatlanta]

Unfortunately I'm not directly connected with the Weather Channel TV studios or anything connected with what goes on air. I'm working in the Weather Channel Interactive division, which handles the weather.com web site and the Desktop Weather application. I'm working in that division, and my immediate responsibilities will be cleaning up the back-end code and the front-end look and feel of the subdomain climate.weather.com, which just went live in a rush this past week. And then I'll be redesigning the entire site itself later on this quarter.

The company is housed in an eight story building, and I'm on the 8th floor. The TV studios are on the 2nd floor or 4th floor (I was told last week during my interview, but I forgot out of the excitement of actually being on the Weather Channel premises). This next week, one of my new friends there will give me a tour of the studios!

Re: TWC

[bendawg]

Still sounds like an incredible opportunity. Thank you for the thorough response! I realized after I left this comment you'd written an entry about the new duties. Not sure how I missed it the first time, but now it's read.

Thanks again. :)