Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:13:39 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> Cc: Alan Batie <batie@agora.rdrop.com>, MegaFred <mfred@zen.triax.com>, Michael Slater <iexpress.net.au.UUCP!mikey@agora.rdrop.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Job Market for Sys Admins Message-ID: <199801152214.OAA22415@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 15 Jan 98 13:12:14 -0800. <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115130723.18778A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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>>> C'mon, who would really want to work for Intel or MS, or even HP?
>>> As for contracting out? I don't think I'd want to leave Silicon Valley.
>>Those of us who couldn't imagine living in the bay area, for one :-)
>>(it's bad enough here!)
> Hehe.. true. Rent is expensive. Traffic is horrible. To have fun
>on friday/saturday night you have to drive ~40 minutes to the city. Way
>hot during the summer. Earthquakes. Everyone has a cellular phone.
> And yet I love this place. :)
Sounds just like Seattle, except replace ~40 minutes with ~20 minutes
(except in "rush" hour), and hot with "just right". Oh yeah, and lots
of rain. :-)
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3,
Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32...
NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others...
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