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. :)

I was told by a friend I trusted at AOL that I would be stir-crazy without a job inside of 2 weeks ( Read more... )

Change is Tough, but Necessary, AOL Chief SaysHere's what I say, Randy: Shut the ____ up, fool, before somebody less charitable than I am slaps the taste out of your lying twisted mouth ( Read more... )

...of unemployment ends pretty much the way it started: With me in Northern Virginia, at AOL ( Read more... )

I've now had three headhunter calls today. I've had my resume out there in circulation for a little over 72 hours, and I've gotten 3 headhunter calls today.

Well, at least I know I should be able to find a job. :)

Well, I was one of the 750+ people laid off from AOL on Tuesday.

( But, things could be worse... )

My job is doing some major hardware and personnel reconfiguration (read: consolidating into fewer buildings), and every time monitoring and stats host (like the ones I run) get moved, they need to be added back to the control port rules list (because their IPs change). The CP process owner has mostly been good about adding the hosts. That's no ( Read more... )

Since 21 April 2007, I've been diving headlong into trying to fix a major issue with my statistics collections and processing at my job. It's been one of the most trying things I've ever done. I knew what the problem was (NFS file system we need for processing intermittently going unreachable, leading hosts to crash hard when their process tables ( Read more... )