[Phoenix-pm] job opening

[Scott Walters]

Let me put it this way. I had a very cool job in Minnesota before I moved
down here 6 or 7 years ago. It didn't pay particularly well, but it was in a
researchish environment in a University business incubator. My girlfriend
got a good job down here that paid a lot of money. Let's just say she 
wears the pants in the family now. I make enough consulting to pay my 
private bills and expenses but not enough to afford a car or a laptop
that doesn't suck ass. I've been trying to "grow" the business and the
plan is to one day have her retire and me paying the bills. But consulting has only
declined and they keep giving her promotions and raises. I took up consulting 
projects to make the transitions between paying jobs easier as I got laid off 
from each company I worked for (usually because they went out of business or
came close, though I'm sure my attitude played a role in a few cases). In
the case of Motorola, I resigned, essentially. I've worked for close to a dozen
tech companies now and I honestly don't think I could stomach another one. 
I'm staying busy enough I haven't quite gotten around to doing pr0n or
serious Java projects, but I keep telling myself I can fall back on one of 
those if need be. If I had more free time, I'd look into things like this, but 
I'm massively underreporting my hours right now to encourage a flow of 
business from the few clients I already havee. I've tried to get paper routes 
and jobs like that to help with the bills and utterly failed. No one wants to 
hire a 30 year old for a non-skilled job regardless of what the movies say.

-scott


On  0, "Metz, Bobby W, WCS" <bwmetz at att.com> wrote:
> OK, I'll bite.  How "do" you pay the rent?  Hopefully it doesn't involve
> any trips to Mill Ave.  ;-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phoenix-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org
> [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Walters
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:38 AM
> To: Brock
> Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] job opening
> 
> 
> If it's anything like ccbill.com, the first person to interview will
> post a full account of what transpired ;)
> 
> I might apply, but ya know, I'm so cynical at this stage of my life, 
> the only real purpose I see to my attending events such as "work"
> and "interviews" is to critique the inaness of it all by saying mean
> things.
> I guess that makes me a consultant. 
> 
> Who was it that said "Since clients don't know what they need it's
> surprising
> that they know exactly when they need it"?
> 
> Every worthwhile programming task was completed in the 1970's. The
> switched
> phone network was finished, airlines has their reservation systems
> running,
> Eliza was chatting up humans, humans were navigated to the moon and
> back...
> since then we've just been doing the same things on different scales for
> different clients with any hope of code reuse yanked away by tech trends
> and "IP", whereby the moon landing navigation sold to your competitor
> or father isn't good enough for you, and your father or competitor's
> moon landing software is too good for you. God damn humans.
> 
> Seriously, I'm so badly traumitized by past employment I don't think
> I could work in the tech sector again. It's my lot to sit at home and
> eat ramen and write CPAN modules, sometimes pausing to guess where
> rent might come from.
> 
> -scott
> 
> On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> > On 2004.10.05.08.19, David A. Sinck wrote:
> > | The work will be helping to improve and customize what we already
> have
> > | in place as part of a team.
> > | 
> > | Further/deeper details available upon submitting a sufficient
> > | interesting resume.  :-)  
> > 
> > Ooo... mysterious. But not really appreciated. You wouldn't like it if
> > we submitted resumes which were practically blank, and add
> > "Further/deeper details available during interview", eh?
> > 
> > OK, perhaps I'm being a bit unfair... but I think you get the point. I
> > feel as if you are toying with us rather than providing us with a
> > serious professional opprotunity. On the other hand, this seems to be
> a
> > pretty common practice. Being common doesn't make it Right though.
> > 
> > --Brock
> > 
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