New job…
Posted by Ben on June 12th, 2007
So, now I can let the cat out of the bag. Effective in a couple of weeks, I’ll have a new job at Kraft - I’ll be working as a Program Leader in our “Lean Manufacturing” group. In plain English, my job will be work with our production sites to improve the efficiency of their people and equipment, using a lot of different best practices from multiple manufacturing industries (most of the ideas come from Toyota, but we’ll shamelessly adapt good ideas from anyone).
I’m looking forward to this change - it’s a big step up in responsibility, the work is the kind of thing I already enjoy doing, and I’ll get to travel to a lot of places (in theory, anywhere in the world that Kraft has a plant). I’ve been looking around for a new position over the past few months as my Tassimo work has been wrapping up, and this job just seemed like a great thing to do. Now I’ll be in a job that has basically nothing to do with my degree…but it’s not like milk and petrochemicals had a lot of overlap anyhow.
As a random aside, all of a sudden, it seems like a huge chunk of my high school graduating class has been linking up over on Facebook. I was originally thinking that I’d blow off the 10-year reunion, but now I want to catch up with everyone from EHS…
June 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Congrats! I can’t remember the number our career center gives, but it’s some really small number of people that actually end up doing what they got their degree in. In addition, I think the number of times the average person changes jobs is 13, so as long as you learn how to learn in college, you’re good to go.
And yes, it does seem that a number of us have connected via Facebook. Perhaps it’s the energy leading up to the reunion. I was planning to attend but not super excited about it. I’m looking more forward to it now and hope to see you there!
June 17th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Congrats - must be nice
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June 22nd, 2007 at 6:56 am
Congratulations, Ben! Sounds like a very interesting opportunity. Best wishes and good luck with this new job. P.S. Love your photography.
Cheri