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Daniel Mahoney - 24 May 2007 02:17 GMT
Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
town with a financial services company for a job.

Good luck purrs would be appreciated.
Matthew - 24 May 2007 02:27 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could be a
> job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in town with
> a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

No problem Purrs and a little prayer being sent
jmcquown - 24 May 2007 02:32 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of
> a commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it
> could be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview
> here in town with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Purrs on the way, absolutely!

Jill
Victor Martinez - 24 May 2007 02:43 GMT
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Sending lots of purrs for the perfect job to come along!

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Gandalf - 24 May 2007 03:09 GMT
>Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
>be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
>town with a financial services company for a job.
>
>Good luck purrs would be appreciated.
Two hours a day is a long time to commute, but if it is to a job she
likes, the time there would pass more quickly, so it wouldn't seem as
long of a day; I hope!

Purrs on the way.
Marina - 24 May 2007 03:38 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could be
> a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in town
> with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Purring for Nancy.

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sam - 24 May 2007 04:43 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could be
> a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in town
> with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Job purrs for the one she *really* wants.

Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe
Joy - 24 May 2007 08:05 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could be a
> job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in town with
> a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Purrs for Nancy to get a job she'll love.

Joy
Adrian A - 24 May 2007 09:42 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of
> a commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it
> could be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview
> here in town with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Good luck purrs on the way.
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Shiral - 24 May 2007 18:09 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
> be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
> town with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

Good luck to Nancy! I hope she gets/she got the job.

Melissa
Daniel Mahoney - 24 May 2007 18:59 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
> be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
> town with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

I guess the interview went well - she starts next Tuesday! Thanks for the
purrs, they worked - again.

Dan
Joy - 24 May 2007 19:02 GMT
>> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan

Congratulations to Nancy!  I hope she enjoys the job as much as she thinks
she will, and doesn't find the commute too grueling.

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jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 24 May 2007 19:10 GMT
> > Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> > commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
> > be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
> > town with a financial services company for a job.
> >
> > Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

> I guess the interview went well - she starts next Tuesday! Thanks for the
> purrs, they worked - again.

Yay! Which job did she get?

Joyce
jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 24 May 2007 19:19 GMT
>  > > Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>  > > commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
>  > > be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
>  > > town with a financial services company for a job.
>  > >
>  > > Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

>  > I guess the interview went well - she starts next Tuesday! Thanks for the
>  > purrs, they worked - again.

> Yay! Which job did she get?

Oh, duh - it had to be the far-away one, since she hasn't had the
second interview yet. Helps to actually *read* the posts. :)

Well, congrats to Nancy, hope she has lots of good music, or books on
tape, or favorite talk shows, to listen to in the car.

> Joyce

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Annie Wxill - 24 May 2007 20:00 GMT
> I guess the interview went well - she starts next Tuesday! Thanks for the
> purrs, they worked - again.
> Dan

Congratulations to Nancy and to you, too.

Annie
Adrian A - 24 May 2007 20:48 GMT
>> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit
>> of a commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan

Congratulations, Nancy.
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sam - 25 May 2007 03:30 GMT
>> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan

Way cool!  Hope it is everything you both are hoping for.  BTW, how goes
your new gig?

Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe
Daniel Mahoney - 25 May 2007 14:34 GMT
> Way cool!  Hope it is everything you both are hoping for.  BTW, how goes
> your new gig?
>
> Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

It's great! I've always enjoyed working as a system admin, but being the
only sys admin for a company gets old pretty quick. But being part of a
4-man team (even though we have enough work for 8) is wonderful.  I'm
loving it. And when my office moves from Grinnell to Newton in a month or
so, things will be even better - my commute will drop from 20 minutes to 5.

In a similar vein, I spoke with my son yesterday about his new job. He's a
senior programmer/analyst for the University of California (same campus
where he got his Comp Sci degree). He's gotten over his initial period of
"crap, I don't know anything about how things are done here" and has
settled in nicely, and has weathered his first couple of system crises. He
has come to the same conclusion I have - neither of us will ever work as a
code-monkey again. System admining is much more satisfying.

Dan
jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 25 May 2007 19:56 GMT
> And when my office moves from Grinnell to Newton in a month or
> so, things will be even better - my commute will drop from 20
> minutes to 5.

Your wife will be jealous!

> He has come to the same conclusion I have - neither of us will
> ever work as a code-monkey again. System admining is much more
> satisfying.

"Code-monkey", LOL. Actually, you might be the first person I've ever
heard say that sys admin work is satisfying. It always looks like a
thankless task to me. You're a hero if you solve the problems, sure,
but if you don't, or if it takes longer than people think it should,
then you're the scapegoat. But maybe you have a particularly nice group
of people to work with, and/or a well-constructed network that isn't
constantly in crisis. I feel sorry for the people who are on call all
the time because of instabilities in badly-designed LANs and so forth.

I enjoyed being a "code-monkey" in my programming days, but eventually
I decided I needed something a little less stressful, that would still
make use of my tech skills, so now I'm a... um, "word-monkey" (ie, tech
writer). :)

Joyce
Daniel Mahoney - 25 May 2007 20:12 GMT
> "Code-monkey", LOL. Actually, you might be the first person I've ever
> heard say that sys admin work is satisfying. It always looks like a
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> constantly in crisis. I feel sorry for the people who are on call all
> the time because of instabilities in badly-designed LANs and so forth.

I'm able to enjoy the fruits of several years of prep on the parts of my
peers. The ISP I work for has around 90,000 subscribers, supported by a
team of 4 engineers and a decent set of level 1 support operators and
level 2 technicians. In the years before I came on board, the guys in the
department did a pretty good job of training manglement to expect problem
resolution to take some time.
jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 25 May 2007 22:27 GMT
> In the years before I came on board, the guys in the
> department did a pretty good job of training manglement to expect problem
> resolution to take some time.

"Manglement" - I assume that was on purpose? :)

Joyce
Daniel Mahoney - 25 May 2007 22:34 GMT
> "Manglement" - I assume that was on purpose? :)
>
> Joyce

Indeed it was!
Winnie - 25 May 2007 22:14 GMT
On May 25, 2:56 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote:

> "Code-monkey", LOL. Actually, you might be the first person I've ever
> heard say that sys admin work is satisfying. It always looks like a
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> Joyce

Me too! I enjoyed  being a "code-monkey". But I don't like
writing tech doc. Now that I am retired,  I work as
a volunteer in teaching  seniors basic computer skills .
Many of them know little English and I have to learn to be
patient.
I also enjoy working on web page. There is little stress since I am
just  a volunteer.

Winnie
polonca12000 - 30 May 2007 22:21 GMT
>>Way cool!  Hope it is everything you both are hoping for.  BTW, how goes
>>your new gig?
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
>
> Dan

I'm so very happy for you all!
Best wishes,
POlonca and Soncek
Matthew - 25 May 2007 07:11 GMT
>> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan

You are very welcome
Happy dance
Stormmee - 25 May 2007 11:46 GMT
outstanding, Lee

> > Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> > commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan
polonca12000 - 30 May 2007 22:19 GMT
>>Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
>>commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Dan

Lots of purrs for everything to go really well for her,
Polonca and Soncek
Ginger-lyn - 24 May 2007 22:52 GMT
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could be
> a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in town
> with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.

You got it.  Purrs on the way.

Ginger-lyn
Stormmee - 25 May 2007 11:46 GMT
you got them, Lee
> Nancy has an interview Thursday morning in Ames. It would be a bit of a
> commute for her (about an hour each way), but it sounds like it could
> be a job she would enjoy. Then next week she has an interview here in
> town with a financial services company for a job.
>
> Good luck purrs would be appreciated.
 
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