So its been a hectic number of months. Not a ton of programming, but I accepted an offer from Raytheon to work in their Airborne Structures group in El Segundo, CA. Unfortunately for me, I was placed on a task that was DOA and I've realized that for a while now. The unfortunate part is I'm being asked to keep squeezing the engineering assumptions and environments to see if it might be passing (not much luck :/ ) so the failure is long and drawn out. Now that we are way late on the scheduled task too I've been pressured into working until I pass out at my desk. I'm frantically scrambling for what's being asked and racking up 11 hr work days regularly (kinda feel like I was duped into thinking these guys have a good work/life balance, obviously not the case here). So in short, I'm only 3 months in and its been awful (I was even sent a nasty gram on my 2nd day of work warning me that I was mischarging time on my first day of work). People I work with say it's not normally like the project I'm on but I guess that's still to see. At this pace though, I'm going to burn out shortly.
On the bright side, I got my P.E.!!!!