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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.
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Date: 2006-05-09 06:55 am (UTC)Anyway, good luck. You will find something; I just hope it's something you actually enjoy.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:16 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 07:17 am (UTC)I submitted my CV today to a pimp outfit, i hope i don't regret it.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:22 am (UTC)99.999% of IT jobs in Australia are handled via pimps, so one doesn't get an option here. Five nines stupidity.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:51 am (UTC)-moo
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Date: 2006-05-09 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 08:53 am (UTC)Good luck, though.
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Date: 2006-05-09 09:59 am (UTC)And then I came here (:
Anyway, you already know 90% of the problem is you're in a market where they have 87 people just like you (in their books) and they can take whomever does whatever they like most, or in some cases, the dice get rolled, or in many cases, someone knows someone.
I would just not worry too much about it. (Having been there semi-recently, I know that worrying about it is impossible to remove completely.)
Ooo, Aperture....
Date: 2006-05-09 10:25 am (UTC)But, yeah, job hunting sucks.
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Date: 2006-05-09 12:17 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, I know enough about SANs to get by. I can zone a Brocade switch with the docs and the web interface. Nobody worth working for will turn you down (other than for a storage architect position) for not having the screens or CLI memorized.
ANd I know about the slackage. I did the same at my last job. It was a blessing in disguise to get hit with a major (for the company) SAN/Oracle/server buildout in the last two months.
I'd offer to put your resume in where I am, but I don't think we have open reqs and there are two people lined up for them already :)
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Date: 2006-05-09 12:33 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-05-09 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 12:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 01:02 pm (UTC)There can be only _one_ Mojo, and he's mine!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Mojo&Ailey.jpg
Seriously though, after my big layoff from HP I found myself in the saturated market of resumes and certain courtesies discontinued such as receiving so much as a simple acknowledgement. Even a polite: "HAW HAW LUZER not even CLOSE" would have been nice. No matter how good the support of loved ones you it can really suck a lot of self-confidence from you so be kind to yourself.
(I began to refer to the bastids as "soul suckers".) Bastids.
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Date: 2006-05-09 02:26 pm (UTC)You might try using a networking site like LinkedIn too to expand your scope.
And play around with different resume formats.
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Date: 2006-05-09 02:39 pm (UTC)I just had a great situation with emailing an art director that my previous boss introduced me to, and just... nothing in reply. Courtesy! Meaningless.
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Date: 2006-05-09 02:56 pm (UTC)You can take some of mine---I think I have my hands sufficiently full for the next 5 weeks. :)
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Date: 2006-05-09 03:56 pm (UTC)PS: Who do I bribe for an icon like that?
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Date: 2006-05-09 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 08:43 pm (UTC)I don't know where to start with alternative résumé formats. I'd appreciate any suggestions (http://ennui.org/rone/resume.html).
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Date: 2006-05-09 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 12:06 am (UTC)I don't know of anything down in your area off the top of my head. I'll keep my ears open.
Have you thought of doing some indy contracting?
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Date: 2006-05-10 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 05:14 am (UTC)BTW, I looked at your resume - I didn't know you were at Ames for awhile! I was at NAS from 1988-1994 doing C programming in their Mass Storage group. Ah, the good old days...
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Date: 2006-05-10 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:18 am (UTC)I don't know how is it there but over here I got informed by the "jop-application coach" we get at the course that chronological order CV is out and you should go for anti-chronological. But if you really want to be on the up-and-coming wave you should use the skills based CV that also hides better holes in your carrier (or a previous carrier you may want to hide, like academic researcher)
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-15 03:44 am (UTC)I did supercomputer mumbo jumbo. Oh, and invented the T.U.B.E, down which data went before the MSS was ready ;)
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