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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things..."

Anyone in the D/FW Texas region need a top notch very hands-on .NET architect/manager with a strong IBM systems background please PM me.  Or even if you just want a seasoned IT professional who likes the entertainment industry and knows the business history of games going back to the late 1970s... ;)  I can't relocate but I don't mind travel and have fifteen years experience working remotely.  As anyone who's seen my posts in Politics I'm very much a free-thinker who likes mastering new knowledge and plays well with others even in that pus-popping festering hole of hot words.

Yeah, and anyone who needs a skilled botanist with a mastery of sight-plant identification of Pacific Northwest species (including graminoids and ornamentals) for wetland/natural resources consulting, technical writing and/or endangered species surveys PM me.

Sorry to hear about the job loss, Poco. Welcome to my world.   :cry:

Anyone who needs a live in house boy for their Vegas mansion can PM me. I will need a few rooms for myself and my wife and about 100k in salary a year. And lots of time off to gamble.

Thanks - it's not the ideal time of year.  Actually I'm still pulling a paycheck - but my employer is still slowly collapsing and there's no sense of urgency in my division to really crack down on the corrosive politics.  The writing's on the wall.

When I win the lottery I'll hire you for my education-oriented virtual worlds game company. ;)

If you're willing to change your mind about relocating, I'm supposed to have something in about a month. (promises, promises...)

Well I hate to say "never" but it would be hard to swing a relo.  I moved my wife back to be near her family a few years ago and I'd be fighting an uphill battle to convince her to leave her quilt club, our acreage, her horses, her barn, etc. but mainly the issue is moving our kids away from their cousins.

How traditional is your company about onsite vs remote employees?  I already own a second home in Houston and it's no great shakes to sell it and pick up a second home elsewhere.  As much as my wife depends on me to help with the kids we've already talked about my taking a job out of town and my going home on the weekends.  If I went back into consulting that would be the reality of life anyway.

OTOH if we're talking Washington State I know I can wheedle a relo out of her for that - my family is there and my sister is also something of a horse zealot.  I'd like an excuse to move to the NW - more my kind of climate anyway.

It's SC government, which at present does not officially allow remote employees.  Definately not your preferred direction or climate either.  Oh well.  Upside is that job security is a non-issue - the government slashed its budget by 30% accross the board a few years back due to the economy which has since improved, so everything left is considered important by someone considered important.  Working for cops sucks ass, but doing stuff that affects public safety is fun, and we get to play with the FBI, intel stuff, etc.

Good luck Poco.  I am from the country (corn and wheat farm) and am dreading the idea that I really have to live in the city to be a lawyer.  If you need a job  you need a job, but getting to live in the country (and raise kids there) is priceless.   :-)

Tri, I agree - it really is priceless.  The downside is they grow up alongside shit kickers.  The upside is the same thing. ;-)  It's a hugely invaluable life lesson that I didn't get being raised in the burbs.

Roac would you be cool with shooting me the particulars offline?  It may not go anywhere but I hate to shutdown an avenue until I've fully explored it. :)

It's funny, I'm not working right now, and I never even once thought of asking the people on here.

Occam's Razor I suppose.

Not that this helps anyone who's posted in this thread, but PM me if you live in the Bay Area, have some coding and customer service experience, and are looking for a job.   :-P

You're not ?  What happened to the industry gig you landed ?

I really thought he had one. Ever since the AGC, it seems like Schild's posts per day have been cut to like a tenth of what they once were. I figured that he was actually busy.

Ahem. I had the industry gig last winter when I lived in Maryland. I'm in Phoenix now. Pursuing another.....gig as it were.

Also, I have an amazing case of writers block. I have about 4 half-written articles and no idea how to continue.

Are you woman chasing ?

That would cure the writer's block, I would think.

Heh yeah that was my thought process - f13 is better rounded than most similar sites but we still have a preponderance of tech types.

Oh, admit it. You're playing games. And loving it.

I love not working, but the main reason I've been looking is that I feel guilty that Sauced has to work and I don't. And I fantasize about how unstoppable we'd be if I were bringing in the second income (my paltry unemployment bennies are a joke). But lately I've been getting kinda bored and giving serious consideration to restarting my soap-making business, Good Clean Soap. I used to sell my homemade soap when I was a student, and made pretty decent $$. Now I've redesigned my recipe and streamlined ops a bit, so I think I could pull it off. But then again, I don't know zick-dack about running a business and can see myself insisting on doing everything myself, getting overwhelmed, and giving up. I just wanna make soap, dammit!

To make soap, first we render fat.

Yeah, when I first started doing it, Fight Club came out like a month or two later, and I still wonder if that's why people were interested in buying it.

The catching, that would cure it.  Not the chasing.

I don't know... having a woman in my life always seemed to cloud matters, not make them clearer.

f13.soap

Do it.

PM me your new addy and I'll send you some.

The alternative is to grow up in the burbs, but work in an industry full of shit kickers. I'm stuck pleasantly in the middle and can relate across the field now.  On the other hand, the folks who grew up in the City (the big, big city) deplore and denigrate their field counterparts in a very uncivilized manner.  Freakin preppies.   :-D

I think I may have picked the wrong industry when someone with that much more in the way of qualifications and experience is losing his job.

Anyone need a wannabe sys-admin with a couple of associates degrees, a smattering of useless comptia certs, and 3 MS Certs?

Yes. Are you willing to unclog toilets and take out the garbage?

;_;

Anyone hiring for embedded systems design?  I've had a CMOS design fabricated at .3 micron tech and I'm fairly competent at VHDL.  I've even had some experience with developing routing and placing algorithms.

(http://www.eng.usf.edu/~wjohnso7/images/chip.jpg)


My work experience has all been internet crap up to now (JAVA, .NET, blah, blah, blah)  but I think would kill someone, if neccessary, to make the transition.

I now feel inferior. ;)

You should all go into business together.  You could start a company and name it "House of Bunnies with Pancakes on their Heads". 

Next job secured this morning.  Elapsed time between jobs: eleven business hours.

"I love the friends I have gathered here .  We have erected pyramids in honor of our escaping."

That's awesome, man. I had an interview today, but I'm not sure if I really want to do the same thing I was doing before, or if I wanna hold out and see if the feds hire me to do lab work. Lab work sounds awfully nice this time of year (as opposed to field work). Crossroads, they are.

"All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave"

Congrats!  You forgot the "on this thin raft" though...

Is that Blake?

Edit: Heh, just googled. The Doors.

I got a job! Yay!

You know what sucks? Someone you meet at the racquet club asking for your resume and you only being able to find one pre-dating grad school. 

Then you realize half the skills you used to be able to list have atrophied to the point of uselessness.

Edit: Grats on your job!

HAH, jobs are for suckers!

 :|I need a job.

Congrats! I hope it won't cut into your posting time  :-D

Well this time I'll just assume I'm being watched at all times.  :-) Thanks for the gratz. It's been a nice 6 month vacation.

Seems lots of people are changing Jobs this year. Myself included. Im staying in the same company but moving to a better position. That means I leave the cushy Government contractor gig and become... get this Liason of the Offshore programming dept. Yeah I found it funny that someone who bitches about it constantly gets the gig. I will also be acting as service manager for our company directing the flow of techs to onsite jobs till we decide if we actually need one of those.

Gratz to you all on yer new gigs. Will be nice being able to come home to the wife every night. Wewt=me

My new supervisor plays WoW. I will not tell him about f13. EVER.  :evil:

Yeah, you might scare him off with that avatar of yours. What is he eating, a Ritz with cheese?

If you do you won't get in trouble for reading it at work. Ever.

Oh hell to the no. My shit is hell of monitored. I will not be a) checking my email from work, b) blogging from work or c) letting anyone at my company know that 'voodoolily' exists. Trust me, it's for the good of humanity.

Evidently, before they got bought by Big Company in California, Mr. Supervisor was the IT guy (as well as having a PhD in botany). He had a server connection from the office and used to game at work. But no longer. It's okay, really, 'cuz like I said, it's for the good of humanity that no one knows what I do here. Except for all you crazy fuckers who I love.

Final understatement of the year.

You mean he closes his door now when he plays.  Heh.

Lots of RAM + Dual Core + Alt-Tab love.

Even though I never got desperate enough to post in this topic I just got hired as a webdev. Turned out when I showed up for the interview that the girl who interviewed me played WoW, and noticed very quickly my work done on MMORPG related sites.

I am looking to get back into IT after a 6 month hiatus.  System admin, network admin, government contract, whatever.  If anyone knows someone hiring in Hampton Roads, VA, lemme know.

I have a TS clearance with SCI eligibility and 5+ years experience.  Oh and currently working on my BS.

I just got some dinky security job, and the site is a medical/lab supply distribution center. They have me on 12am-8am shifts for now. My last shift, me and the other guy (you're usually by yourself) BS'ed and watched bad Kung Fu DVDs, and did occassional paperwork...for eight hours.

I'm bringing in my Xbox tonight.

But you already have plenty of BS!



Sorry, someone had to do it.  :wink:



Gratz on pursuing teh higher educations.