First day at work

Yes, it finally happened! Today was my first working day at Sukhoi Civil Aircrafts. Surely, it is impossible to make up solid impression. But, I'll tell ya guys it was quite worth to move there. No, it's not better than Boeing, it's just a different and very promising story.

Sukhoi Civil Aircrafts company is located in three facilities which are really close to each other. One of them is leased from another famous Soviet aircraft design bureau, MiG. My building is a single-store renovated factory or something like this. There's construction work all over the facility.

We have a long corridor with doors to rather big halls. In their turn, halls are divided by light walls into cubicles just like at the Boeing or Moscow Boeing Design Center. The cubicle where I will be seating is for 7 people, I saw both, bigger and smaller ones.

I've been given with a tiny 12" Toshiba notebook. The funny thing is that I have not been given with the account yet, so my laptop was resting all the day.

Naturally, I was not performing any work today, it was mostly socializing, getting familiar with the co-workers and the facility etc., all the things people normally do at their first (and, sometimes every) day at the work.

My working hours will be 9am till 6 pm Monday through Thursday and 9am till 4:45pm on Fridays. The lunch break is 45 minutes long. There's no kitchen at our facility right now, but–remember, construction?–I was told there will be the one pretty soon.

I commute by the train, it's not a Metro, it's a suburban train which runs through the city and has few stops within the city borders. I was very lucky that one stop is close to the place where I live and the other one is close to Sukhoi.

Well, that's it for a while. I promise I will keep you updated, so stay tuned. If anyone has any specific questions (no trade secrets, please :), go shoot it, I'll try to do my best to satisfy your curiosity.