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Contacted by a Bart Young with 'Resolve Executive Marketing' who made a short pitch and deferred to a scheduled longer call the next day ( Read more... ) -
So you want to be a full stack web developer?
Full stack web developers are hot shit, and will continue to be hot shit for as long as companies act like simple minded cheapskates. Also known as forever. To be hired to do the work of three or four people, for 1/2 the salary that it would cost to employ those specialist people (or easily 50% premium over market), learn this stuff ( Read more... ) -
Your thoughts on a racist scenario?
Lets say I have a counter at which I'm processing paperwork for people. People come into the waiting room and up to the counter and I work with the ones who are at the counter. Its a small waiting room, crowded, and many people have to wait outside. I do not have control over what happens outside the door ( Read more... ) -
dreams of weird
I had dreams last night, three which were frightfully weird ( Read more... ) -
On finding opportunities
I recently ran across the most fabulous opportunity. Its not like I don't already have a job. Its not like its not a good job. In fact, its been a well paying and engaging job where I can work from home. But I regularly get calls from recruiters because I am an experienced engineer and I don't hide my resume ( Read more... ) -
what'm I supposed to do with this?
I want my brother (youngest of six kids) who is staying with me looking for work to get a job. He has culinary training experience. I told him on sunday, after he's been farting around for a solid month not actually finding a job (barely applying to many places, not following up on the possibilities he does find - he's interviewed a few places, ( Read more... ) -
Working on the House
So having bought the house, and odorfix, gotten rid of the cat urine odor, and a cooktop, and a countertop, installed the cooktop in the countertop atop of a frame made of scavenged 2x4's from the master bedroom, and gotten the beds in, installed a scrub sink in the kitchen, patched up the plumbing so it doesn't leak in any disastrous way ( ( Read more... ) -
Title insurance? Really?
I made an offer on a house friday (yay!) but its only a $6K house. Its not a big or fancy house and its not in a nice neighborhood. But it can be *my* house. And that is a good thing indeed ( Read more... ) -
How to Never Have A House Payment Again
Reworking of http://eclecticsite.com/buyingacar.html
The idea is to take this article about buying a car and seeing if it makes sense for houses.
I think it strangely enough does...
How To Never Have A House Payment Again
by Keith Rawlinson bastardized by Skylos
Volunteer Budget ( Read more... ) -
A little poem
Tweet Creep
- I wrote this in response to a tweet. Its silly.
Yesterday at my bus stop
I met a creep who'd up and hop
across the street when bus would come
I hope tomorrow he'll be gone
When I came home last night at three
The creep was waiting there for me
we disembarked with stamping feet
but there he was across the street
So the narcs took him ( Read more... )