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	C'mon, who would really want to work for Intel or MS, or even HP?
Here we have SGI, Cisco, Sun, Netscape, Yahoo! and other "cool" companies.
	As for contracting out? I don't think I'd want to leave Silicon
Valley.. plus, I still have 2 more years of college *sigh*

-- yan

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, MegaFred wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Jan Koum wrote:
>> 	Don't know about Portland/Seattle, but there is sure a huge market
>> in San Francisco Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley). And while it is hard to
>> find a part time job (*sigh* darn school), there are a lot of full time
>> jobs here all the time. After all, it is not called Silicon Valley for
>> nothing. :)
>
>Ah, but the Silicon Forest (Portland / Seattle) is home to Intel, HP, and
>Microsoft.  Go North my friend, and a Job will be waiting!  If anything,
>there's alot of government jobs up here looking for AS/400 (y2k)
>conversions, and alot of sysadmin duties for AIX servers.  Other then
>that, just start your own business as FreeBSD consultant... Heck, if
>you're good enough, we might even contract out to you. :)
>
>Joe
>Triax Internet Services
>Portland, OR
>
>