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[rone]

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I'm a fucking rockstar.  So why aren't people interested in hiring my fine ass?  Well, i guess i have some holes in my skillset.  But i'm not about to buy a Brocade switch or a Hitachi SAN off eBay so i can improve myself.

I do think that i got soft at Macromedia and didn't expand my skills enough, especially the last 6½ months from ADBE takeover announcement to the bitter end.  Sure, nobody else was working then, but i let the malaise drag me down instead of taking care of myself.  If i'd let that happen in my relationship with Kim, she'd've divorced me.  Not that i'm saying i should put as much effort into my job as i do my marriage, but i shouldn't get comfortable and take it for granted, especially when the eventual outcome of the acquisition was evident to anyone with half a brain (but, alas, even i suffer from denial).

Anyway, i'll keep plugging away.  So far, the only places that have gotten back to me and haven't turned me down are Apple and TiVo.  More résumés have been dispatched.  I'll be getting my mojo back soon, i can feel it.

Comments

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

Urk. I met with a pimp today and spent one hour and twenty minutes being annoyed. I hate the whole process.

As far as Brocade switches go, they're pretty damn easy. Easy enough that it wouldn't be hard to claim the knowledge and bluff it out. Besides, half the time the switch configuration is done by the SAN vendor. Claiming experience with EMC etc is pretty damn easy - you aren't allowed to touch the EMC kit, so you don't need to know too much about it.

I've been told that Hitachi kit is a breeze to deal with, but I've never had the chance.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

We considered Hitachi at MACR but we ended up going with HP instead.

I submitted my CV today to a pimp outfit, i hope i don't regret it.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

HP stuff is really easy, if you mean the EVA boxes. I just hate the whole Windows SAN appliance box thing, even if you do get commandline tools.

99.999% of IT jobs in Australia are handled via pimps, so one doesn't get an option here. Five nines stupidity.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I remember that back in '97, I felt sometimes like the whole industry existed just to jerk me around. There was supposedly this tech boom going on, and I got a fair number of interviews, but almost everyone who interviewed me turned out to be under a hiring freeze. They were just collecting resumes like Pokemon cards. Half of 'em would announce massive layoffs after inteviewing me.

My background got me lots of slightly freaky attention from recruiters with black military contractor jobs that they couldn't even describe. I told myself I'd exhaust other possibilities before taking those.

I talked to one employment agency that said in soft and patronizing tones that I should expect to earn half of what I eventually got.

Eventually, I got two offers at once, from, of all things, a job fair. Job fairs are supposed to suck, but this one did the trick. I think my weird resume actually became an asset there, because there were all these kids with fresh CS degrees and Windows C++ experience lining up in front of the tables for the body shops, and the people who were not looking for those kids were interested in talking to anybody who was not them.