This is so awesome. My grandfather had all these cars. Well, he had the TR4, and traded that for the Spitfire MkIV when he blew up its transmission. My dad still has that car, which I used to steal periodically, to Ferris Bueller from time to time with friends. It was so fun. It as a sad rusted mess now, after I moved away... but I still have hope for it.
It is presently parked next to my '59 Hillman Minx in their back back yard parking lot... I really need to fix them both. But I also have my other grandfather's Model A, and the boat, and all my Benzes... so I need an improvement to cashflow, time, and of course, a new job, just having gotten laid off...
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 7 monthsNov 10, 2024 23:02:48 ago (+1/-0)
WOW! You've got some pretty cool toys! Sorry to hear that you're in the job market! It's a shit job market right now! Trump's going to have to step in and do something about it! I'm so glad that "Heels-Up" Harris didn't win! Trump is not great, But He is better than the alternative!
I reckon all I need to do is hold out to January when the job market gets awesome.
But I have already had a couple interviews for practice, and plan to keep doing that so that I am good at interviewing by January. I might even get something by then, but I'll keep looking because I suspect the market for really experienced sysadmins will get pretty good again. We're harder to automate out of existence than coders for the time being.
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 02:29:27 ago (+1/-0)
I wish you all the best. And I'm saying this as a dude with skin in the game... I've been job Hunting myself for quite awhile, and it's been an ass-kicking machine of Ghost Jobs, Scammers, and Brain-Dead HR zombies! My hope is that the Trump win will make it so that HR bitches have no choice but to start hiring!
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 7 monthsNov 9, 2024 22:35:29 ago (+0/-0)
Well, he had the TR4, and traded that for the Spitfire MkIV when he blew up its transmission. My dad still has that car, which I used to steal periodically, to Ferris Bueller from time to time with friends. It was so fun. It as a sad rusted mess now, after I moved away... but I still have hope for it.
It is presently parked next to my '59 Hillman Minx in their back back yard parking lot... I really need to fix them both. But I also have my other grandfather's Model A, and the boat, and all my Benzes... so I need an improvement to cashflow, time, and of course, a new job, just having gotten laid off...
Trumpstein will save me! ...I hope...
[ + ] iSnark
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 7 monthsNov 10, 2024 23:02:48 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 00:08:30 ago (+0/-0)
But I have already had a couple interviews for practice, and plan to keep doing that so that I am good at interviewing by January. I might even get something by then, but I'll keep looking because I suspect the market for really experienced sysadmins will get pretty good again. We're harder to automate out of existence than coders for the time being.
[ + ] iSnark
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 02:29:27 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 02:57:07 ago (+0/-0)
May the new year be a new start for us all.
[ + ] iSnark
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 03:16:12 ago (+1/-0)
It's kind of surreal to me that we're about ready to close out another year.
[ + ] xmasskull
[ - ] xmasskull 1 point 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 01:26:02 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 7 monthsNov 11, 2024 02:50:02 ago (+0/-0)
But I really don't want to.