Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about]2 back in 2001. Because of this I considered filing suit, but I have decided against it after talking to an atterney. Even If I could win, it’s not worth what it would do to my reputation.
I’ve spent my time always on the leading edge of the computer wave. In the late seventies I built my first computer from a Intel 4004 chip dropped on the floor of the electronics house where I worked as a stock boy. While working KA Electronics I attended Devry Electronics school in Dallas Texas. I moved back to Oklahoma City marry Linda.
In the early eighties I rode the microcomputer revolution and owned my own computer store. Business Microsystems sold Vector Graphics systems to small business in Oklahoma. This was the first business computer store in Oklahoma City if not the state. Business Microsystems ended with the collapse of Penn Square Bank . There are many stories to tell about this time, Z-DOS and a multi user operating system in the early eighties, the first Apple computer distributer in the midwest, High Technology Software and a doctors office appointment system that ran for fifteen years. But these stories will have to wait for another blog entry.
Through the late eighties and early nineties, I surfed the communications wave and worked for the State of Oklahoma. First at the Department of Corrections and then for the Oklahoma office of State Finance (OSF). For most of my currier at the state I did software development. I wrote a accounting system for the department of corrections call the Inmate Trust Accounting system, I wrote a licensing system for the Oklahoma House Racing Commission, another for the Department of Labor, and I started work on a database system for the Oklahoma Ethics Commission when the Internet came along. All the time developing code for the State I ran a bulletin board system (BBS) known as SOURCEry System and wrote code for [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about]2 back in 2001. Because of this I considered filing suit, but I have decided against it after talking to an atterney. Even If I could win, it’s not worth what it would do to my reputation.
I’ve spent my time always on the leading edge of the computer wave. In the late seventies I built my first computer from a Intel 4004 chip dropped on the floor of the electronics house where I worked as a stock boy. While working KA Electronics I attended Devry Electronics school in Dallas Texas. I moved back to Oklahoma City marry Linda.
In the early eighties I rode the microcomputer revolution and owned my own computer store. Business Microsystems sold Vector Graphics systems to small business in Oklahoma. This was the first business computer store in Oklahoma City if not the state. Business Microsystems ended with the collapse of Penn Square Bank . There are many stories to tell about this time, Z-DOS and a multi user operating system in the early eighties, the first Apple computer distributer in the midwest, High Technology Software and a doctors office appointment system that ran for fifteen years. But these stories will have to wait for another blog entry.
Through the late eighties and early nineties, I surfed the communications wave and worked for the State of Oklahoma. First at the Department of Corrections and then for the Oklahoma office of State Finance (OSF). For most of my currier at the state I did software development. I wrote a accounting system for the department of corrections call the Inmate Trust Accounting system, I wrote a licensing system for the Oklahoma House Racing Commission, another for the Department of Labor, and I started work on a database system for the Oklahoma Ethics Commission when the Internet came along. All the time developing code for the State I ran a bulletin board system (BBS) known as SOURCEry System and wrote code for]6 .
Jack White was director of OSF when everything changes again. The Internet was opened up to the public and the State of Oklahoma Wanted on. Because of my experience with FidoNet and because I was already using the ARPAnet at that time, I was ask to help the state get “on-line”. It took me only weeks to put www.state.ok.us up with a website and email. I did it with a couple of old desktop computers and Linux. Today this may be the system I am most proud of.
After OSF I when to work for Amearican Floral Service now Telaflora . I help them develop a website in Java using ChiliSoft . They never lunched it in large part because they purchase a new accounting system and partly because they didn’t completely believe in the Internet.
I left AFS when a friend, who had retired from Flemming Foods and unannounced to me, took me to their job fair one Saturday morning and walked me up to the Director of IT. I worked on their website for two years. This time it was written in Javascript by outside company. Flemming was ready to take their website public just as the dot com bubble burst. Then Flemming’s bubble burst but by then a new job had come my way again.
For the last six plus years I worked for Hertz (HTZ) helping them run Hertz.com. When I started their “New” e-commerence system, developed by IBM, wouldn’t go. I helped by explaining all the pitfalls of running a system on the internet. Things like, reverse proxy system used by companies like AOL and cookie management needed to keep customers seperated. After a year and lots of reprogramming by a Hertz development staff, we had it going. Two years latter Hertz lunched there new system you see today. The Internet Systems and Design (ISD) teem and I helped save Hertz millions of dollars by convening them to use Linux as their base operating system and Intel based micros instead of [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about]2 back in 2001. Because of this I considered filing suit, but I have decided against it after talking to an atterney. Even If I could win, it’s not worth what it would do to my reputation.
I’ve spent my time always on the leading edge of the computer wave. In the late seventies I built my first computer from a Intel 4004 chip dropped on the floor of the electronics house where I worked as a stock boy. While working KA Electronics I attended Devry Electronics school in Dallas Texas. I moved back to Oklahoma City marry Linda.
In the early eighties I rode the microcomputer revolution and owned my own computer store. Business Microsystems sold Vector Graphics systems to small business in Oklahoma. This was the first business computer store in Oklahoma City if not the state. Business Microsystems ended with the collapse of Penn Square Bank . There are many stories to tell about this time, Z-DOS and a multi user operating system in the early eighties, the first Apple computer distributer in the midwest, High Technology Software and a doctors office appointment system that ran for fifteen years. But these stories will have to wait for another blog entry.
Through the late eighties and early nineties, I surfed the communications wave and worked for the State of Oklahoma. First at the Department of Corrections and then for the Oklahoma office of State Finance (OSF). For most of my currier at the state I did software development. I wrote a accounting system for the department of corrections call the Inmate Trust Accounting system, I wrote a licensing system for the Oklahoma House Racing Commission, another for the Department of Labor, and I started work on a database system for the Oklahoma Ethics Commission when the Internet came along. All the time developing code for the State I ran a bulletin board system (BBS) known as SOURCEry System and wrote code for [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about [Still no job
I’ve been searching for a new job for two weeks now and how things have changed since the last time I was actively looking.
I say actively because mostly jobs have found me. The last time I had to look for a job was in the late 90’s. To find a job then you search the paper each day. Today there is nothing in the paper. Well, there are no professional jobs.
I have posted my resume on all the job search sights, Monster, Job Seeker, but all that has gotten me is calls from placement services. I don’t mind working with them but I’ve never been sure they have my best interest in mind. One of the companies that contacted me wanted me to pay them four thousand (4k) dollars to help find me a job.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it looks like my biggest problem with finding a new job is my age. Every placement services has told me be same. This isn’t new, CIO magazine wrote about]2 back in 2001. Because of this I considered filing suit, but I have decided against it after talking to an atterney. Even If I could win, it’s not worth what it would do to my reputation.
I’ve spent my time always on the leading edge of the computer wave. In the late seventies I built my first computer from a Intel 4004 chip dropped on the floor of the electronics house where I worked as a stock boy. While working KA Electronics I attended Devry Electronics school in Dallas Texas. I moved back to Oklahoma City marry Linda.
In the early eighties I rode the microcomputer revolution and owned my own computer store. Business Microsystems sold Vector Graphics systems to small business in Oklahoma. This was the first business computer store in Oklahoma City if not the state. Business Microsystems ended with the collapse of Penn Square Bank . There are many stories to tell about this time, Z-DOS and a multi user operating system in the early eighties, the first Apple computer distributer in the midwest, High Technology Software and a doctors office appointment system that ran for fifteen years. But these stories will have to wait for another blog entry.
Through the late eighties and early nineties, I surfed the communications wave and worked for the State of Oklahoma. First at the Department of Corrections and then for the Oklahoma office of State Finance (OSF). For most of my currier at the state I did software development. I wrote a accounting system for the department of corrections call the Inmate Trust Accounting system, I wrote a licensing system for the Oklahoma House Racing Commission, another for the Department of Labor, and I started work on a database system for the Oklahoma Ethics Commission when the Internet came along. All the time developing code for the State I ran a bulletin board system (BBS) known as SOURCEry System and wrote code for]6 .
Jack White was director of OSF when everything changes again. The Internet was opened up to the public and the State of Oklahoma Wanted on. Because of my experience with FidoNet and because I was already using the ARPAnet at that time, I was ask to help the state get “on-line”. It took me only weeks to put www.state.ok.us up with a website and email. I did it with a couple of old desktop computers and Linux. Today this may be the system I am most proud of.
After OSF I when to work for Amearican Floral Service now Telaflora . I help them develop a website in Java using ChiliSoft . They never lunched it in large part because they purchase a new accounting system and partly because they didn’t completely believe in the Internet.
I left AFS when a friend, who had retired from Flemming Foods and unannounced to me, took me to their job fair one Saturday morning and walked me up to the Director of IT. I worked on their website for two years. This time it was written in Javascript by outside company. Flemming was ready to take their website public just as the dot com bubble burst. Then Flemming’s bubble burst but by then a new job had come my way again.
For the last six plus years I worked for Hertz (HTZ) helping them run Hertz.com. When I started their “New” e-commerence system, developed by IBM, wouldn’t go. I helped by explaining all the pitfalls of running a system on the internet. Things like, reverse proxy system used by companies like AOL and cookie management needed to keep customers seperated. After a year and lots of reprogramming by a Hertz development staff, we had it going. Two years latter Hertz lunched there new system you see today. The Internet Systems and Design (ISD) teem and I helped save Hertz millions of dollars by convening them to use Linux as their base operating system and Intel based micros instead of]11 systems.
That brings us to today. I’m still riding the wave.in my spare time I help code GPS systems (See Xastir ), and I work on Internet Security systems (see Snort ) and I play with PodCasting .
If you’d like to know more or you have a job for me, please give me a call +1 405 213.0568 or drop me an email at mark at grennan.com.