Non-tech question, but with your background, you could have migrated to any field. Anything stand out as a motivation to move in the direction you did? LabVIEW/MATLAB were my early intros into CS. I haven't really touched MUMPS yet, and I should. Thanks for the recommendations.
After hundreds of applications sent out - in a vast variety of fields, considering that degree - and an interview with Red Hat I didn't succeed in ultimately, this was the next best thing. In retrospect, probably better. The employment market for scientists here in Australia is pretty much complete crapness unless you do a PhD, which I didn't go for. Plus, I've had the IT experience and interest and our system is a domain I'm really interested in. And the company is pretty awesome too, especially my coworkers who are all equally enthusiastic about both the product and our customers.
Yeh, did not expect much work detail, but that makes sense. Most of my fellows voice op-eds of frustration, so it's nice to see someone defend it a bit ;-)
