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I am, as I write, a Senior Systems Specialist at GE Healthcare. Well, that is a good title to have. I am not what sure that exactly means though, but it is a mouthful. My in-laws are impressed. And so was my ex-landlord. Small things matter.

I have been with GE Healthcare since 2000, the year I was declared to be mentally and educationally competent to hold a full-time job. That explains the seniority. Seven years is not exactly a short time. Especially, when you can learn Java in 24 hours. Or, the Bible.

The team I am on, develops advanced post-processing applications in the Molecular Imaging and Computed Tomography. That's again, quite a mouthful, but this time I can stand to defend myself. The stuff people do on my team is pretty awesome, actually. Things like segmenting out the left ventricle of the heart from a gated PET cardiac scan and then detecting which muscle tissues are not getting enough blood.

I try to help from time to time, but they keep on giving me important tasks like setting up meetings, making sure the projector and the cord are in the same room, updating dates on a website to notify that the product is not getting delivered this quarter because the lead system designer is going for her honeymoon to St. Lucia; stuff like that. They also call me the "Lead Program Integrator" and I am told that I am responsible for end-to-end delivery of a couple of our premium products.

I am also told once I figure how to make these ends meet, I will be up for promotion.

When I am out of errands to run, I write. Poems, music and another blog. By now, you must be sure that this is yet another blog, even if you are not sure about what.

That's definitely vague.

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