Workin' 9 to 5

So I completely underestimated how uncomfortable starting a new job can be.  I have worked for Experian for over 13 years, and thought I knew so much. Not so much.  This has been the roughest week so far as I try to get into a new work routine and the boys started going to a new daycare center.  They miss their friends and teachers at Highlands Academy as much as I miss my "mates" at Experian.  We knew we would experience home-sickness, and it has started.

The Syndey Experian offices are in a very nice 30-story building in North Sydney. We have just under 100 employees on two floors of the building and we're planning to hire about 30 - 40 more people as we ramp up a new credit bureau.  The Melbourne office has about 250 employees, and it sounds like I'll get to visit them soon.  I feel so cosmopolitan when I put on my commuter shoes (flip-flops) and take my dress shoes on the bus each day. 

We are realizing how spoiled we have been living in the US.  There is a different level of urgency, customer service and technology.  Matt has been experiencing this as he attempts to coordinate utilities and other services.  Matt: "Australians are the most pleasant incompetent people I have ever met."

Slugfest 2012:  "They're a formidable foe. They have a brain the size of a grain of salt but unfortunately I can't figure them out" (Matt Hatterman).  This weekend he is mounting a full-out counter-offensive. It's like Eisenhower planning the D-Day invasion.  Stay tuned.