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MiX09 personal note..
I feel a need to talk about something probably because my intense Introvert side is totally exhausted from the parties i have been in recently (or rather socially exhausted). So, there is a joke that someone around me keeps saying to me just to give me a hard time. He keeps implying that there are those on the internet whom i’ve so offended with some of my stances that i am hated.. The exchange usually is something along the lines “you know that really hate me..” the first time my response was with great alarm and then i...
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101000
Well, this is the geek way to say this... today is the day... at approximately 8:10am est on July 31st, my official age is the equivalent of 1010 or $28 or written in another format : 0x28 (or in VB &h28). That’s also 50 in octal (which really sucks! I think base 10 looks better than that don’t you think)... [yep, I’m a geek... you can figure it out... to find that not only am I a geek... but an old one... I wrote all this the night before because tomorrow, I’m afraid that I will be cursed...
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How long should it take you to get a new job at your current level?
For me the answer to that question is about 1 month. If I get a contract position maybe less time, but in the last several tries it has been at least a month to find a good company/position.
Last week I wrote about my personal struggles with the job situation. Some bad things happened to my business that put me a month behind in looking for a position (new business came last month that ended up going sour). I had enough money in the bank to cover my personal expenses for exactly 1 month which meant that if my margin for...
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Personal: Trying Not to Despair
[This is a personal post that you may want to skip (or may not... there won’t be much technical stuff here, but I need to get this out]
So my business (the one I started last January) is in bad shape. The reality is that if my business is hurting financially (which it is), then I’m hurting financially (which I am). I’m about to quit working for myself and go find a contract and get out of my home office for the first time in 2.5 years. That really hurts, but it is where things are.
So what happened? Well, I have...