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Taking a Job and Getting Zero Support
Now I recognize the signs
Congratulations on your first day in your new job. Everything is new again. New boss. New coworkers. New desk. How exciting.
And that’s usually been the case with me. Except this one just kind of felt…funny.
I had been leading the engineering team that put the first metaverse, WorldsAway, on the internet, and now that it was live, my team was in support mode, so some were starting to trickle away.
About this time I got a call from a recruiter asking if I wanted to be a program manager for a DARPA project. I’d be working with a client team to make sure they had all the resources they needed from my new company to complete their project successfully, which in this case involved an early AI program they’d built that analyzed disruptions in a supply chain to quickly find a solution. My project’s supply chain would be delivering munitions overland.
That sounded exciting. This was the first time
- I’d be working in the real world with AI, which was catnip for me
- I’d be managing a program shared between two companies
- I’d be working with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which…
