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Post #128,676 by Yendor 12/3/03 4:01:23 PM Reply	IWT.employed++ OK, so since the beginning of October, I've been working in either California, Dallas, or home for the consulting job that's had me trotting the globe since last November. Except for when they didn't call me between April and October. Well, I can't handle being unemployed for six months straight. My finances barely survived, but I can be thankful for the employment from October to now. Either way, the travel isn't good since I've now got a family. So I went out and found something locally. Commute will be an hour and a half (one way) in the car, and no, there's no better way to get from Naperville to Crystal Lake. But, 40+ hours a week guaranteed is nothing to sneeze at. And I didn't have to take a pay cut, either. So, I'll suck it up and deal with the commute and be thankful for having a job. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,677 by a6l6e6x 12/3/03 4:02:48 PM Reply	Yay! Good luck with it! Alex "Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves." -- Eric Hoffer
Post #128,678 by folkert 12/3/03 4:03:20 PM Reply	Toot! YEAH! \\o/ -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [insert witty saying here]
Post #128,680 by bepatient 12/3/03 4:11:14 PM Reply	Yeah baby Yeah! If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #128,681 by Silverlock 12/3/03 4:13:39 PM Reply	Good. Damn good. ----------------------------------------- Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Post #128,685 by Another Scott 12/3/03 4:18:48 PM Reply	Congrats!
Post #128,688 by jb4 12/3/03 4:24:24 PM Reply	Awww-RIIIIIGHT!!!! Hmmm, Naperville to Crystal Lake...US 14? Perhaps I-90 NW to Ill 31, then Ill31 North? Either way, its a reverse commute (thank Ghod)! Congrats! Now If we can just get Todd a Gig... jb4 "There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President." John Kerry
Post #128,689 by folkert 12/3/03 4:27:14 PM Reply	And... Ross... Bryce... -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey*
Post #128,691 by Yendor 12/3/03 4:28:39 PM Reply	Nope IL-59 to IL-68 (Algonquin) to IL-31. Basically working right near IL-41 (Northwest Highway (or is that IL-14?)) and Main St. in Crystal Lake. For those who're wondering: serious enterprise-level Java development, combined with tutoring more junior-level Java coders. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,700 by jb4 12/3/03 4:56:19 PM Reply	Actually, that'd be US 14 Why Algonquin to Ill 31? Do you (like me) have a pathological aversion to the Illinois Toll Highway Authority? If not, It'd seem to me that the tollway would cut the time to IL 31 significantly (YMMV) jb4 "There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President." John Kerry
Post #128,697 by drewk 12/3/03 4:48:19 PM Reply	'Bout time you got off your lazy ... err, I meant "congrats" === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #128,710 by cforde 12/3/03 5:55:25 PM Reply	glad to hear it but that commute. ouch. 3 hours a day in a car is going to wear on you. what are the possibliities of relocation or work from home? Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #128,713 by Yendor 12/3/03 6:09:55 PM Reply	None and none. But the gig is only 2-3 months. I can do that, knowing in advance what I'm getting into. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,725 by Nightowl 12/3/03 7:16:57 PM Reply	Re: IWT.employed++ Congratulations! I'm so glad you found something! Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be." Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
Post #128,727 by Yendor 12/3/03 7:19:10 PM Reply	Thanks. :) -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,730 by deSitter 12/3/03 7:25:06 PM Reply	Super! -drl
Post #128,732 by ben_tilly 12/3/03 7:26:05 PM Reply	Good luck, and I hope you like your new co-workers "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #128,736 by lincoln 12/3/03 7:59:31 PM Reply	My condolences on the commute but congrats on the 40 hrs/week work. Be wary, cause rumors have Lucent dumping a good portion of the people from the Bell Labs site at Warrenville and Naperville roads intersection. Could affect the local economy and your future employment competition if true. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #128,738 by Yendor 12/3/03 8:14:32 PM Reply	Toss those folks in... ...with the thousands that Tellabs has laid off (corner of Diehl and Raymond) in the past year or two. The market is already so glutted around here, what's a few thousand more? -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,920 by lincoln 12/4/03 12:58:11 PM Reply	They'll keep me from coming home for another year or two at least. By then I'll be so rusty that when I do make it back, I'll have to change careers! lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #128,922 by deSitter 12/4/03 1:01:19 PM Reply	I find it astonishing ..that there are no jobs in Chicago. It's the most work-ethic city in the world maybe! How is it possible that there are not even subsistence jobs?? -drl
Post #128,950 by Yendor 12/4/03 1:58:35 PM Reply	That's a bad thing? [...]I'll have to change careers! TSIA. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #128,945 by jb4 12/4/03 1:52:37 PM Reply	Lucent hasn't anyone left to dump Except perhaps for some fat-ass "management"-surrogates, and they'd not be competition for Yendor. jb4 "There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President." John Kerry
Post #128,755 by slugbug 12/3/03 10:23:50 PM Reply	Can you say.... ....many audio books on tape? Helps the lengthy commute. And, way to go on landing the gig!
Post #128,786 by pwhysall 12/4/03 2:08:09 AM Reply	Your car will protest. No motor vehicle can withstand 3 hours of showtunes a day. No more being a lazy unemployed Java bum for you, eh? Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #128,793 by Meerkat 12/4/03 5:28:55 AM Reply	Yay! John. Busy lad.
Post #128,818 by boxley 12/4/03 9:01:41 AM Reply	good doins! "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]