Time to wake up and make some coffee. Yesterdays brewery meeting was a success. Sadly no free shit to talk about although they did have really nice private bathrooms for their employees. #itsthesimplethings.
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Coffee, suspended newspaper delivery, a few things to wrap up today, depart tomorrow morning.
Good coffee before work. Also I left my flat keys in the lock. Thank god for my 99 year old neighbor. Now it's no motivation day. GF comes back tomorrow from Bali. Cleaners are ordered since I'd miss something anyway. Will pick up some good food for her since I can't pick her up from the airport.
Tried for some extra sleep this morning, and while Cat did it's best to not allow that to happen, I was mostly successful.
where ya off to?
Charleston and Bluffton. Family Thanksgiving get-together. I'm planning to try riding in North Charleston, no idea what to expect.
cool, safe travels
Flat and sandy.
Trail gators and overweight cougars.
Morning. Just signed up for LinkedIn premium. Should get me moar job traffic, hopefully.
half day tomorrow.
Lemme know how LinkedIn premium pays off. I've hesitates to pay the $30/mo they want, or the $170 some resume writer wants to "turbocharge" my candidacy.
I don't know how much longer I can maintain this pace. Tempted to ride a bike, but it's raining, and attempting to snow.
my $.02.
LinkedIn is full of shitty recruiters trying to make a buck. When you get a call or email, research them. If they were folding sweaters 6 months ago and have "Sr. Recruiter" in their title, set expectations low.
I got contact from a young woman in TX, the "Sr. Placement Specialist" bullshit, fresh out of college. I googled her name and in about 15-20 minutes found videos online of her and her friends drinking and driving in TX just weeks earlier. I let her know.
Many recruiters are excellent and professional. Work with them.
LinkedIn is full of shitty recruiters trying to make a buck. When you get a call or email, research them. If they were folding sweaters 6 months ago and have "Sr. Recruiter" in their title, set expectations low.
I got contact from a young woman in TX, the "Sr. Placement Specialist" bullshit, fresh out of college. I googled her name and in about 15-20 minutes found videos online of her and her friends drinking and driving in TX just weeks earlier. I let her know.
Many recruiters are excellent and professional. Work with them.
you should have just sent the link to her local PD.
Another day of hitting things with hammers and listening to moar Republitards fumble over dear leader.
she's young and stupid. no shortage of that.
and breaking the law in gross manner. 10,500 driving fatalities in 2018. fuck. that. shit.
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thank you. I agree.and breaking the law in gross manner. 10,500 driving fatalities in 2018. fuck. that. shit.
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Shame about Jake Burton Carpenter.
I bought my first board from him for $45 out of his garage in Londonderry, I still have it. 1981.
It was probably a 20 minute exchange, but he still remembered me decades later when I ran into him a few times at trade shows.
I bought my first board from him for $45 out of his garage in Londonderry, I still have it. 1981.
It was probably a 20 minute exchange, but he still remembered me decades later when I ran into him a few times at trade shows.
I feel the Boston tech job market is quite specific. It is a small pond saturated with eleventy billionty schools, people with money who don't work for compensation, rich kids with Ivy league MBA who get propelled to executive positions a year after graduation, etc. etc. Nearly everyone I know hates his job and looks for a new one. Every job posting I find has 50+ applicants a day after posted. Recruiters only care about their open positions and won't really work with you unless they get hit with a rare well matching opportunity. This is employers' market with the exception of entry to mid level developer jobs and a few high demand occupations such as devops or security professionals. Being old (over 40) isn't helping much either.
I feel a change of scenery will be a must for my wife and me soon. Our accent is not impressing anyone anymore.
I've got a guy I will contact if/when I get serious about my job search. Right now I am just casually looking, seeing if anything interesting pops up, whereas a year ago I had no interest in looking. The thing with good recruiters is that once you let them know that you are "open," it is game on for them. I am not at that point where I am ready for that full court press.
have you looked out here? we seem to have a bottomless tech sector out here.
I am not sure what I really want to do next. I feel that I've hit a professional ceiling here, my accent, obvious cultural differences and lack of appetite for political games disqualify me from climbing the corporate ladder higher, and I am becoming too expensive where I am for lateral job mobility. I would never think that hearing "guy is super smart and capable" would be the damnest curse of my career.
Well, that's U.S. IT in general.
Go west, young man... go west. I'd skip all those flyover states, though - they will REALLY be unimpressed with your accent.
dats er'ry day brah
I have someone trying to sell me on ketamine therapy. It sounds fun but I rather do it at a phish show than in some clinical setting.
I am starting a new fitbit challenge. Im gonna try & walk under a mile today.
I am starting a new fitbit challenge. Im gonna try & walk under a mile today.
Look in the Burlington, VT area.
Stalling hard on the losing weight front in the gym and just generally hard as hell to get up these week, but trying to just push through it. I always feel better when I get done and the rest of the day, but bed has felt so good lately in the morning. I think the cool weather and being nice and toasty under the covers. But also seeing waistline improving even though the scale isn't moving much, so that helps. It's just motivated to not feel like a beached whale lately and I'm actually looking forward to summer this year. Should be able to be in pretty good shape for beach days with the kids.
Anywho, had a meeting with the school district about our youngest and he has some speech delay, which is great that is all they think it is. But he qualifies for help with speech through the district, so we will be enrolling him with that. He is already going to a place through my insurance for one day a week for an hour and it's been helping. He had some hearing issues as a baby, so we are trying our hardest to just get him caught up. My wife came down off the ledge when they told us they think it's just a delay and not something more severe. Being a parent is hard, yo.
Three day weekend coming up, then a three day work week and another 4 day weekend. Definitely going to sprinkle in plenty of riding and try to avoid stuffing my face as much as possible.
Anywho, had a meeting with the school district about our youngest and he has some speech delay, which is great that is all they think it is. But he qualifies for help with speech through the district, so we will be enrolling him with that. He is already going to a place through my insurance for one day a week for an hour and it's been helping. He had some hearing issues as a baby, so we are trying our hardest to just get him caught up. My wife came down off the ledge when they told us they think it's just a delay and not something more severe. Being a parent is hard, yo.
Three day weekend coming up, then a three day work week and another 4 day weekend. Definitely going to sprinkle in plenty of riding and try to avoid stuffing my face as much as possible.
what i found when i was training hard in my days of racing DH my weight would only drop so much, plateau, then actually start to increase again as i burned off the fat but then started building muscle mass.
Bit of a mental game since I'd like to cut down. But I'm definitely putting on muscle mass, so I'm not too worried about the scale numbers. I'm just at least happy where I'm at now with how I look and feel and can just stay the course and see where it takes me in the next few months. I just feel like I've made a complete 180 from where I was headed a few months ago and try to remind myself I want to keep it up.
yea, i get the mental game, then i came to the realization it was silly.
I'm not trying to drop a lot at this point. I'll be totally happy at 210-215. I'm 230 right now. I definitely don't have unrealistic goals. I don't want to be massive. I don't need to be crazy shredded. I just want to be healthy, look healthy and kick ass on my bike. For me, the weight thing has a ton of benefits, like I just want to be leaner along with knowing 10+ off my ass makes a huge difference while riding, not even competitively. Just fun. It's easier to climb, I'm way more fit and agile on the bike. These last 30 pounds I've dropped make me feel like a totally different person, on and off the bike.
I have a few finance and tech recruiters I am friends with since college who are very integrated into the high level SF tech and finance world - including owning their own firm for over a decade. That also allows them to have good contacts in other major markets if they don't work in those locations. If you are interested, I can introduce you to the appropriate people.