First week at my new government job! Genuinely feel like I made the right decision, at least based on first impressions. The biggest downside is that the standard deviation on my 90 minute commute is, like, 45 minutes. But the people are nice and I have some interesting things to work on, much more in the realm of bicycle infrastructure and traffic safety than before. The biggest thing I need to get used to is probably the pace of things. I'm used to hit the ground running and a pretty fast pace. But discussing my work today I went "so you have just one urgent thing for me? how urgent is urgent?" and the answer was "well we need something by the end of January, how about we decide on the roadmap in two weeks". (Not that I'm complaining! This is what I wanted.)