Heather recently shared a similar post (okay, I totally snagged the idea from her), but hey, a good idea is good idea and maybe it’s meant to be spread!  So here goes,  without real life pictures to share – a few reasons why the new job (referenced with some sense of excitement here) rocks:

1. Regardless of the fact that I’m logging 10-12 hours more a week than in the old gig, I am… making more money.  And for that reason, I can’t complain.
2. On more than one occasion, I’ve walked into a conference room to find the development team playing video games on the biggest plasma I’ve ever seen.
3. Our office is equipped with xbox, allowing the development team to play for extended periods of time in said conference room, on said TV.
4. On other occasions, the dev team doesn’t even bother secluding themselves from the rest of us – they play right in the open space we like to call cube land / the bullpen / the corral.
5. They play in said bullpen, or in the aforementioned conference room, with little to no threat of being reprimanded for such actions.  Video games are encouraged.  They’re ‘learning’ and ‘researching’ and ‘studying.’ (Oh, the perks of working in a software development group).

Aside from money and video games, my new job rocks for more reasons – reasons more appreciated by a 24 year old lady like myself.

1. We celebrate every, single birthday.  We have a card, we sing happy birthday, and we have anywhere from 30-60 minutes of cake time.  We tend to stick with delicious chocolate mouse or chocolate & rasberry.  New co-workers love chocolate, and cake, and taking time away from our laptops and massive plasma screens to enjoy chocolate cake.
2. New co-workers like to have fun.  They laugh, a lot, during the day.  They joke out loud about completely inappropriate things and execs join in on the mayhem.
3. New co-workers also like to have fun after hours, over beer.

Wouldn’t you agree that beer, and giggles and chocolate cake and money make any new job better than the last?