Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:18:39 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com>, 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: <199801180019.QAA03456@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 17 Jan 98 16:15:47 -0700. <199801172315.QAA28726@mt.sri.com>
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>> >>> 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.)
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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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