• 17Jun 07

  And I say to myself, What a Wonderfull World...

  Well first off a very Happy Father's Day to all that it applies. Lord knows Dad has what can be considered an underappreciated job and all we get for it is the "Big piece of chicken at dinner" but we all know why we do it and this is just a shout out of thanks! Funny how on Mother's day Mom gets all dressed up and we take her out and all this hoopla (much deserved though) and on Father's day dad just wants everyone to leave him the hell alone please!
  
  Anyway the studying paid off, I passed my 7 interviews and it looks like I'll be getting the job offer next week! Of course that assume I don't have some unknown warrant out on me from something stupid I might have done in my twenties or something that will kill the background check. SO, even thought its not been a great father's day by any standard, kind of down and gloomy but no big deal, the Lord has been more than kind to me and my family. My hopes that He has bless you and yours.
  • Posted Jun 17, 2007 3:29 pm PT
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• 15Jun 07

  Gots Me a Penny! Only need $99,999.99 more to go!

  Woot iI got a Tag or Emblem i mean! a Nice Shiny New Penny, and a FRIEND!

  Now, I'm not one to complain, but i can hit level 20 in World of Warcraft in 2 days and it's taking me 4 days to get 25% into level 2! WTF! Seriously if Tv.Com ever expects this site to beat out WoW there gonna have to ratchet down the level grind a bit!!

  So, i got my first penny, then i went and checled other peoples emblems, and died a little inside. All in all it simply shows that the site is made to reward, steady continuous posting and contributions. Speaking of contributions, thank you kalsirsk, i know having a newb post a bunch of first time contributions to have them all denied because he didn't format correctly isn't fun, but you were very helpful in explaining how to properly submit them.

  Anyway today is a big day for the family. Idont usually write about myself but here goes:

  My wife and children live in Blue Bell PA. They moved up there a year and a half ago because our 4 year old son was diagnosed with a type of Autism. We lived in Puerto Rico ( Nice low 80's sunny cahne of rain all year round type of place) up until that point. After going to docotors here and specialist in the states it was brought to our attention that the best palce for our son, or better said the areas witht he best succesfull treatment and support services was Mongomery county PA. So 2 months later we had an apartment, a tons of new furniture, another car (2 adults 4 cars total, somethings wrong here) and a darstically depleted savings account! Wife also had to go to full time mom and advocate for our son, there's also our cute 1 year old dughter she takes care of.

  I am the CIo and Founder of a samll tech consulting company in Puerto Rico, Appteks Inc, since the money was made here and things were going well, i choose to stay and help the company grow till i could stay up in the staes full time and be with the family. Unforunately, as the senior engineer, the more work we got, the mroe work I had, and over 18 months ive only spent 9 weeks witht them. Not enough. Now supporting 2 housholds, the PA one and the PR one is dam expensive, so just flying up and finding a job wouldnt work since our cost of living is HIGH because of the dual houshold thing and medical, so i kept trudging away down here till i got to the breaking point. It dosn't matter how much money i make down here, without them ith me it's pointless, hell i do it all for them anyway i don't care about the money, the company or success, i care about them and keeping them well and safe.

  So, we decided tat this summer i would leave the company (my partner is my best friend from college, hes the vp and now he'll be running it) move up to PA and well figure it out with God's blessing.

  Thankfully the company is solid, i can leave and have it with enough contracts to cover operating expenses and payroll (minus me) for 3 years. But i would be doing a break in which i would be without income for a while.

  So out of he blue a recruiter calls last month to see if i was interested in a Sales Engineer job in PA. We'll hell yeah its what i do right now right, cake. Well i have experiance with one of their 4 product lines and the background they need is very broad ( think networkign guy with telecom, security and flow control, but all focused on appplications). Well the interview process has been tough, and i haven't ahd a regulaar "job" for over 9 years! Well now, 5 interviews in the bag, i have 3 more today, one sales (cake) and 2 techs. The techs are gonna drill me from how many bits in a MAC adress to Cert exchanges and application headers.

  If i pass the 2 techs i get the job and move up to PA with a starting salary and bonus thats more than enough to cover everything.

  SO, lots and lots and LOTS of studying over the last 2 weeks. I'm nervous as heck about this.

  Wish me luck!

  • Posted Jun 15, 2007 5:38 am PT
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• 14Jun 07

  Big Study Day

  I'm 75% of the way through an interview process for an Engineering position in the North East. GOt 2 big online tests tomorrow to finally qualify so today is a big study day as i review networks, Interconnects, DNS, 802.11ad, 802.1q , x509, SSL, Apllication headers and God knows what else!

  Wish me luck!

  • Posted Jun 14, 2007 7:04 am PT
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