[plug] Long winded, self congratulatory ramble.

[J Michael Gilks]

Will make a nice change from 5 metaframe licenses to run MS Office for an 
office with 30 people, who all have linux workstations.
Means I no longer have to recover stuffed Word documents at home using 
OpenOffice.org and then try explaining to the users why this facility is not 
available at work.
I am so happy. Hugs, kisses.
God I hate myself, luckily I am right here so I can beat myself up.

Love
Mike.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:10 pm, Chris Caston wrote:
> Congratulations Mike,
>
> *lifts beer glass*
>
> Your very lucky to find a place where you can use MySQL and OO.o instead
> of MS SQL (or Access) and MS Office.
>
> May there be more jobs of your kind.
>
> regards,
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:27, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> > I finally got a real job and want to share with the world.
> > Persistence and adaptability do pay.
> > For the last 2 years I have been looking for work in the IT industry, the
> > last year subsisting on minimum wage because I had to have a job and it
> > almost paid the bills.
> > Any way, a few months ago I dropped a resume to a geophysical company on
> > the off chance that they might have something in the future. 2 weeks ago
> > they phoned me at work to say they were looking for a programmer person
> > and could I come for an interview. Of course I said Yeah!!.
> > At the interview they asked had I used Perl, python and GTK. I had to
> > admit I hadn't used python at all, I resisted Perl because Perl people
> > are cultist who will rewrite the Linux kernel in Perl if allowed enough
> > rope, and was checking out QT in opposition to GTK for the cross
> > compiling possibilities and the nice database connection stuff. They, of
> > course, said that the next month would be spent looking for candidates
> > who had the relevant experience and they would let me know. I replied
> > "That's good, will give me time to learn Perl."
> > I did start learning Perl and converting my shell and awk scripts at work
> > to Perl. I was amazed at the increase in speed and flexibility. In fact
> > one script I wrote ran so fast I didn't bother checking the output
> > because "I knew it must be broken and just exited, doing nothing." After
> > an hour looking for problems and not finding them I actually checked the
> > output directory. There in all it's glory was all the results I had been
> > aiming for. I decided on the spot that maybe this Perl stuff wasn't so
> > bad after all.
> > Anyway, over the weekend I sent a couple of sample scripts to the
> > interviewer to say that I hadn't been wasting my time and here were some
> > samples of my work for his perusal.
> > He starts at 9, by 9:30 he was on  the phone to me at work asking me to
> > come and see him for a follow up interview. When I got there he offered
> > me an actual job. It involves mainly writing scripts to monitor jobs and
> > reformat files, with a major dose integrating MySQL to OpenOffice.org.
> > Basically everything I like to do, with some extra programming and
> > languages thrown in for free.
> > So, for everybody else struggling out there, persistence and adaptability
> > do pay. Keep on learning and if you show keen, eventually it will be
> > worthwhile.
> >
> > May possibly have had a couple of beers to celebrate and have reread the
> > massage. All this sharing and Perl, I have become a SNAG Perl zealot.
> > Does this mean everybody will avoid me from now on.
> >
> > Anyway this is the best news I have had in a long time.
> > To everyone else struggling out there, hang in. Miracles do
> > happen.(There's that SNAG bit again.)God I hate myself.
> >
> > Love
> > Mike.
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