Pasithea

So. Yesterday I sent out my first two resumes just because I can't count on us getting the next grants. It's a bummer looking for new work. I love my team here. It's been the Anti-Dilbert environment. Everyone knows what they're doing and likes doing it. Anyhow, one of the places I sent to I had a really good feeling about. I liked the energy the ad was written with. (And it was on Craiglist, so no e-mail rape from Monster) I got an e-mail a couple hours later asking for a phone call. I said I was free before 3 today (I'm on swing shift for command today) and got a phone call about ten minutes later. After a rather cool phone interview, I had a live one scheduled for this morning at 9AM.... Wait for it.... With Simon Lok. Oh yeah! Someone crazier than me! ^_^ I am so into this! FreeBSD development with a goal of undercutting Cisco and the like. >:D Smaller faster better and focused on good UI design! I wish GPB could last forever but this doesn't sound like a bad second.

The interview this morning went pretty well, though I stumbled on the most embarassingly easy of questions (How do you get data from a CGI variable with Perl CGI. Anyone with 20 seconds to spare and a web browser could answer that one). The rest of it... I was a little puzzled bye how simple the questions were. I mean they were really really basic things on code optimization and algorithms. Started to worry they were giving me the soft touch or something. I wish I'd brought some code to discuss. So much easier to talk about code with code. Anyhow, I spent two hours there and talked with a half dozen people.

Anyhow, now I'm at work 3 hours early which is a good excuse to get ahead on this Java app. >:D