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That big life change I mentioned? Well, here it is: In a few weeks, I’ll be starting a new job.

After a flurry of phone calls and interviews, the Fuel Cell Division of General Motors will be welcoming me as their newest electrical engineer. I’ll be working directly with the team responsible for bringing a commercially-viable GM fuel cell engine to market over the next few years.

To say I’m excited would be an understatement. To say I’m honored to be offered the job wouldn’t convey just how fortunate I feel. And to say I nearly peed myself when the offer came in – well yeah, that’d be pretty accurate.

Leaving my current job will, of course, be bitter-sweet. I’ll miss working on the product that my Dad and I dreamed up on the sidelines of an American LeMans race. I’ll miss the design team, too. But – if all goes well – I should be able to do a some evening consulting, maintaining the designs that I contributed over the last two years. And, with any luck, the product will be successful – the fulfillment of our dream despite my partial disconnection.

David Livingstone said, “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.”

I heartily agree.