...I've just finished my first week at my new job. #whew#

I'm the new Production System Administrator at Fortius One, a Geographic Information Systems company that is looking to become the Google of GIS. We've just recently started work on the product-level release of GeoCommons, a geographic data mining tool, and GeoCommons Appliance, a ( Read more... )

It was a bust ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've updated. Much has happened in my life since the last update.

My last update was two days before I headed out for a job interview, probably the most important event in my unemployed life to that point.

Things got a little weird after that.

Actually, they got a lot weird.

( Click here to see how weird that day itself was... )

120 days into my life as an ex-AOL programmer, I'm two days away from an interview as an IT Applications Manager with a major U.S. corporation (not saying more than that right now). Wish me luck. :)

I'm not dead, though sometimes I feel that way ( Read more... )

I got a "thanks but no thanks" note from ESPN this morning. Believe it or not, there are a lot of computer jobs available at ESPN (especially at Bristol HQ), and I applied for 4 of them. Oh, well.

I also applied at FOX (same thing--huge number of computer-related jobs in LA and NYC), and while I haven't been outright rejected, I haven't gotten a ( Read more... )

...is finding two new requests for interviews in your "Job Hunt" e-mail folder.

#crosses fingers#

Today is 30 days post-layoff. Something somewhat scary about that.

Dumped TWX stock options available for $10; netted nice return on investment.

Job hunt is progressing. Lots of resumes sent. Hired a professional resume service to rewrite my resume (and they did a freaking awesome job; I highly recommend Alesia Benedict of GetInterviews.com if ( Read more... )

Spent Thursday (11/01) in NoVA. Had lunch with a former co-worker (way fun). Met up w/ another former co-worker whom I hadn't gotten a chance to see before my departure on 16 Oct (also way fun). Went to Job Fair in Reston, where I saw more former co-workers who'd left on 16 Oct than should ever be in one place at any one time (weird ( Read more... )

So far today: 2 headhunter calls, one personal interview scheduled. Finally, job hunt is turning around. :)