It’s felt like a long week so far but I must admit I’m faring better than some - I’m looking over resumes for friends at the moment ( I think I’ve seen more skill matrices than shell prompts today!) who’ve lost work over the past few weeks due to the GFC - redundancies and in [...]
I seem to have found myself at a crossroads. Not a personal one (well, not really) but hobby / professional. Make of that what you will.
Firstly, I’ve been doing IT support and systems administration for a living for nigh on nine years now. I’d been a Linux tinkerer well before then (I got into mail [...]
Thought I’d post a quick update seeing that’s it’s been a while.
Firstly, I am again looking for work. I’m not going to go into detail other than to say I’m extremely disappointed and will be very careful who I work for in the future. If anyone in Brisbane (or doesn’t mind a telecommuter) needs a [...]
Work: Is going well. Security and fixup work at the moment, a nice mailserver build (learning a bit about I/O kernel elevators) and miscellanea.
Life: My love is back from interstate with all of her needed gear. Catching up with old friends from school via Facebook of all places. Another old wound crossed off The List [...]
Heh, a month between posts? I must be getting slack.
Things have mostly improved. I am again gainfully employed in a systems architecture / infrastructure development type role with Dedicated Servers / Hosting Shop here in Brisbane. It means less systems admin work (and the downsides like insane hours and being tied to a pager / [...]
Well - what can I say?
I’ve suddenly have some free time on my hands, however not the way I’d intended (some holidays). My employer decided - very suddenly I might add, over a coffee @4pm last Tuesday afternoon - to make me redundant as of the 13th of May.
I wasn’t given any warning and frankly [...]
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