On Friday, I was contact by a person working for Insight Global, a staffing agency. He wanted to set up a meeting between myself and one of their local people, a formal "meet and greet" today at 2:30 in the afternoon at their "downtown Boston" office. I was promised an email confirmation of the call and it was requested that I reply with a clean ( Read more... )

We've fixed the slime pipes!

Also, I have signed that papers that make me a full-time employee of SDL as Senior Technical Support Engineer working in the Structured Content Technologies division, starting May 23, 2011.

Some of you know that I've accepted an hourly contract position at Valora Technologies starting next week. It's not really my area and the pay is "on the low side" (about half of what I was making at my last job) but as all of my other job leads had gone cold, it seemed a reasonable option now. Take it, work through the end of the year, see how ( Read more... )

I have received a formal offer of employment from Day Software for the position of Customer Satisfaction Engineer effective Monday, November 16, 2009 ( Read more... )

The job situation may not be quite as dire as I thought. I should find out more on Monday ( Read more... )

I have finished my "Skills Test" for another company (I'm not ready to say who quite yet). This was a timed questionnaire and I unfortunately lost track of my time during it and finished 6 minutes late. I have no idea if this is going to disqualify me from the position completely or just lower my ranking ( Read more... )

Well, I just found out that I did not the really cool job that I had applied for. As some consolation, I was their second choice for the position and they may contact in a month or so if they decide they are still crunched for staff ( Read more... )

I have just dropped ahf at the airport so she can fly to Dallas, where she will spend the week getting to know two people who now report to her and being annoyed by her boss and grand-boss, the first of whom is flying down with her and the other of whom will be there for unrelated reasons. She will be there until Friday, arriving back in Boston in ( Read more... )

First, tomorrow morning ahf and I leave for Anticipation in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We'll be back on Monday the 10th. If there's anything you'd like us to keep an eye out for while we're there, drop me an email or comment here.

Second, when I return, I have a job interview at Streambase for a support position there. I don't have a definite time ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there have anything pro or con to say about StreamBase Systems?

Thanks.