{"id":551,"date":"2009-01-18T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplicity.dk\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-01-18T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T13:40:09","slug":"as-of-february-1st-im-an-employee-of-the-danish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krag.be\/index.php\/2009\/01\/18\/as-of-february-1st-im-an-employee-of-the-danish-state\/","title":{"rendered":"As of february 1st I’m an employee of the Danish state."},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange but quite exciting. I accepted a job offer from the danish state, more specifically Statens IT<\/a>, where i’ll be part of a ridiculously ambitious project to consolidate IT systems from more than a hundred government offices over the next 3-4 years. <\/p>\n

I never pictured myself as a government employee, it’s quite a strange transition from freelancing, developing world do-gooder, but:<\/p>\n

* It’s new and very much different.
\n* It’s family friendly, and will allow me to pick Arthur up from day-care most days.
\n* It’ll be chaotic, unpredictable and probably very interesting.
\n* I can get unpaid leave for a few weeks a year in case there are book sprints<\/a>, workshops or otherwise i just can’t live without.
\n* It comes with a stable, albeit modest, income, which will help us get rid of our mortgage, and perhaps do something crazy sometime in the future.
\n* The whole project is unpredictable enough that nobody knows what will happen there after the first few years, which means i can keep a mental image in my mind of this as a temporary 2-4 year thing.<\/p>\n

In general, i’m happy with the decision, the job and the general outlook of my near future.<\/p>\n

I am however sad that there’s been so little time and energy for the developing world projects i really love. But it fels like an inevitable consequence of fatherhood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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