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For the last week

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For the last week and a half, I have been driving to Shady Grove metro station and then taking the red line metro to Metro Center and switch over to the blue line metro. I take the blue line metro to L'Enfant Plaza Metro. This trip takes me around 90 minutes. Other than being away from my family for 3 hours and getting up at 5 am, I have been enjoying my commute. The metro trip is a blast since I sit in the seat and ride the Metro. I have don't have to worry about getting stuck in traffic, or make rude hasty judgments who is good driver and who is not. I have also started to enjoy my job. I do a lot of technical stuff like doing analysis on the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) or write Java code or XML. It's been good. I don't have to worry about deadlines. The thing I realized is that you have to be motived with your work or will hate it. This is important when you work as an employee with the US Government since US Government officials are assigned hi...

TooSpoiled to take the DC beltway

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I have been enjoying my commute to work lately. It's a beautiful drive from New Market, Maryland (MD) to Chantilly, Virginia (VA) . I drive by wineries, small towns and beautiful pastures. This is a quite the contrast from the everyday bustle of the Washington, DC beltway. It's a pleasant drive. Sure it has its bad days but overall it's quite good. Am I getting spoiled? Maybe but I did get an email (spam) from TooSpoiled.com for a Customer Service Representative position. I don't know where they got my resume but I am J2EE developer/data architect. Anyway their site is a riot. They also need to mine their resumes better.