I started working for the Siemens ASIC division in 1989. As time passed Siemens came to the conclusion that there was insufficient profit in maintaining that division so they slowly cut back. I did get a trip to Germany for four months to work on one of their 8 bit microcontrollers, more on that later (well probably next ish, actually). Since it looked like the Siemens ASIC division was going away entirely I decided to follow my former manager to Toshiba. That's where I'm at now and I'm doing basically the same thing I was doing at Siemens. Amazingly enough the Siemens ASIC division did go away. While working at Siemens I normally worked nine to twelve hours a day and the average commute time from Dublin to San Jose (one way) is about one hour. Occasionally after arriving home I would log into work via modem and continue to work. I'm still working 9 or 10 hours per day at Toshiba but the 11 and 12 (or 14) hour days are somewhat less frequent and I hardly ever log into work from home. The commute is still about the same. Obviously the time I spend at work and my commute do not leave much time on a normal weekday and for some reason or another I don't seem to have much energy during the rest of the evening.

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