From chad.cassady at gmail.com Tue Mar 5 10:59:32 2013 From: chad.cassady at gmail.com (Chad Cassady) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:59:32 -0800 Subject: SPUG: just found out I'm looking for work again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey SPUG, I accepted a job offer yesterday. Thank you guys again. See ya at the next meetup. Chad On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Chad Cassady wrote: > Yesterday morning I was let go from my position as a sysadmin at a local > startup. I was wondering if anybody knew of some open position coming up > that I should chase after. > > You guys were incredibly supportive last time around (It was only last > summer I was looking for my first IT job). It was really a great experience. > > I realize it's kinda sketchy that I lasted only 5 months at my first > sysadmin gig, but I've got references, several of whom will say my > departure was less than totally my fault (tactfully put). I haven't had too > much trouble telling the story to prospective employers and not getting > positive feedback. I've actually been looking for work for more than a > month, intending on leaving that job. I'll say no more. > > Having been absent awhile: I was the guy who was just learning Perl and > wanted to learn C next, and was hoping to find a job. When I got one I quit > showing up for the meetings because I was working a lot. > > I hear Marchex is looking for a sysadmin and I'm about to apply because > the view from the office is spectacular. Other than that, if anybody knows > who some good places to work in town are, let me know. Feeling a lot more > confident this time. > > I'll be there in April with some code for you guys to look over. I was > almost done with a little thing using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to automate > some tasks with their terrible API-less Rails app they called a ticketing > system. I'm sure my approach could have been cleaner, so that'll be nice to > get some experienced eyes on. > > Thanks for everything, > > Chad > > _____________________________________________________________ > Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List > POST TO: spug-list at pm.org > SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list > MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays > WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark.mertel at yahoo.com Tue Mar 5 11:26:00 2013 From: mark.mertel at yahoo.com (Mark Mertel) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:26:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: SPUG: just found out I'm looking for work again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1362511560.84978.YahooMailNeo@web142601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Congratulation Chad! I just found out Friday's my last day - maybe there's something out there for me as well. ? --- Mark Mertel mark.mertel at yahoo.com >________________________________ > From: Chad Cassady >To: spug-list >Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:59 AM >Subject: Re: SPUG: just found out I'm looking for work again > > >Hey SPUG, > >I accepted a job offer yesterday. > >Thank you guys again. See ya at the next meetup. > >Chad > > > > >On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Chad Cassady wrote: > >Yesterday morning I was let go from my position as a sysadmin at a local startup. I was wondering if anybody knew of some open position coming up that I should chase after. >> >>You guys were incredibly supportive last time around (It was only last summer I was looking for my first IT job). It was really a great experience. >> >>I realize it's kinda sketchy that I lasted only 5 months at my first sysadmin gig, but I've got references, several of whom will say my departure was less than totally my fault (tactfully put). I haven't had too much trouble telling the story to prospective employers and not getting positive feedback. I've actually been looking for work for more than a month, intending on leaving that job. I'll say no more. >> >>Having been absent awhile: I was the guy who was just learning Perl and wanted to learn C next, and was hoping to find a job. When I got one I quit showing up for the meetings because I was working a lot. >> >>I hear Marchex is looking for a sysadmin and I'm about to apply because the view from the office is spectacular. Other than that, if anybody knows who some good places to work in town are, let me know. Feeling a lot more confident this time. >> >>I'll be there in April with some code for you guys to look over. I was almost done with a little thing using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to automate some tasks with their terrible API-less Rails app they called a ticketing system. I'm sure my approach could have been cleaner, so that'll be nice to get some experienced eyes on. >> >>Thanks for everything, >> >>Chad >>_____________________________________________________________ >>Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List >>? ? ?POST TO: spug-list at pm.org >>SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list >>? ? MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays >>? ? WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/ >> > >_____________________________________________________________ >Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List >? ? POST TO: spug-list at pm.org >SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list >? ? MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays >? ? WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chad.cassady at gmail.com Tue Mar 5 11:37:04 2013 From: chad.cassady at gmail.com (Chad Cassady) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:37:04 -0800 Subject: SPUG: just found out I'm looking for work again In-Reply-To: <1362511560.84978.YahooMailNeo@web142601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1362511560.84978.YahooMailNeo@web142601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Probably. Shoot me an email and I'll try and put you in touch with some of the people I was talking to. If there's a gig for somebody as new to the industry as me, there's gotta be one for you. Chad On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Mark Mertel wrote: > Congratulation Chad! > > I just found out Friday's my last day - maybe there's something out there > for me as well. > > --- > Mark Mertel > mark.mertel at yahoo.com > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Chad Cassady > *To:* spug-list > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:59 AM > *Subject:* Re: SPUG: just found out I'm looking for work again > > Hey SPUG, > > I accepted a job offer yesterday. > > Thank you guys again. See ya at the next meetup. > > Chad > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Chad Cassady wrote: > > Yesterday morning I was let go from my position as a sysadmin at a local > startup. I was wondering if anybody knew of some open position coming up > that I should chase after. > > You guys were incredibly supportive last time around (It was only last > summer I was looking for my first IT job). It was really a great experience. > > I realize it's kinda sketchy that I lasted only 5 months at my first > sysadmin gig, but I've got references, several of whom will say my > departure was less than totally my fault (tactfully put). I haven't had too > much trouble telling the story to prospective employers and not getting > positive feedback. I've actually been looking for work for more than a > month, intending on leaving that job. I'll say no more. > > Having been absent awhile: I was the guy who was just learning Perl and > wanted to learn C next, and was hoping to find a job. When I got one I quit > showing up for the meetings because I was working a lot. > > I hear Marchex is looking for a sysadmin and I'm about to apply because > the view from the office is spectacular. Other than that, if anybody knows > who some good places to work in town are, let me know. Feeling a lot more > confident this time. > > I'll be there in April with some code for you guys to look over. 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(I don't know if that's in the SPUG space or not, as I've never been in Marchex.) From baronmog at gmail.com Tue Mar 19 13:37:40 2013 From: baronmog at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Noah_R=C3=B8mer?=) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:37:40 -0700 Subject: SPUG: spug meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <5148A67E.4010405@cpan.org> References: <5148A67E.4010405@cpan.org> Message-ID: Well, if we've got a speaker, I can rearrange my schedule to make it. Otherwise, I'll have to shoot for next month. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Sibley wrote: > On 03/19/2013 09:57 AM, Noah R?mer wrote: > > Is there a spug meeting tonight? > > Mark Swayne (DAOTOAD) cast a line for interest on #spug yesterday, but > no one seemed to bite. I'm up for heading downtown if people are going > to show. > > He also noted that the Seattle Web Performance meetup is happening at > Marchex tonight . (I don't know if that's > in the SPUG space or not, as I've never been in Marchex.) > _____________________________________________________________ > Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List > POST TO: spug-list at pm.org > SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list > MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays > WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/ -- It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tsibley at cpan.org Tue Mar 19 13:49:54 2013 From: tsibley at cpan.org (Thomas Sibley) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:49:54 -0700 Subject: SPUG: spug meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: References: <5148A67E.4010405@cpan.org> Message-ID: <5148CF72.505@cpan.org> On 03/19/2013 01:37 PM, Noah R?mer wrote: > Well, if we've got a speaker, I can rearrange my schedule to make it. > Otherwise, I'll have to shoot for next month. AFAIK, there's no speaker to speak of.