From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 18 06:34:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09639 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09613 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03456; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:19:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801180019.QAA03456@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Nate Williams cc: Jan Koum , Alan Batie , MegaFred , Michael Slater , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Job Market for Sys Admins In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 17 Jan 98 16:15:47 -0700. <199801172315.QAA28726@mt.sri.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:18:39 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >... >> >>> 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. :-) >Hmm, why live there at all. Traffic is great (< 1 mile to work), the >mountains and the hills are about 5 mins away, the internet connection >is solid, why live anyone where you and your 5 million closest friends >like to hang out. >Montana is the place you wanna to be. :) Raise your own militia... form your own alternative government on the weekends... :-) (Actually, I really liked Montana the few times I drove through it.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------