[CoLoCo] Job Situation

[Bart Saunders]

Congrats! I'm currently looking and would love a john environment like that.

Bart Saunders
On Dec 16, 2010 12:17 PM, "Ian Santopietro" <isantop at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a great place. Congrats on the new job! If I didn't already
have
> a great Ubuntu job, I'd be on that like white on rice.
>
> Sent from my DROID X smartphone. Please excuse my brevity.
> On Dec 16, 2010 11:43 AM, "Kevin Fries" <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just got a response from somebody this morning asking about my job
>> situation, and I thought I would follow up to the group instead of a
>> bunch of individual messages.
>>
>> I had a great interview about 3 weeks after being laid off, and got
>> offered that job 10 days later. I started November 15th as a Systems
>> Engineer with Catalyst Repository Systems in LoDo.
>>
>> Its awesome working in a place where Linux is part of the corporate
>> strategy instead of some back-door rogue OS that the company is almost
>> ashamed of. I have worked for too many companies that used Linux but
>> never formally acknowledged it. To me, Linux is far too often the hero
>> that everyone is ashamed to associate with (Why does the movie Blazing
>> Saddles come to my head right now, lol). I knew I wanted to work here
>> when, in the interview, the Director of Systems Engineering (my now
>> boss's boss) walked in with an Ubuntu coffee cup, and the other guy I
>> was interviewing with (a remote member of the team, via skype) started
>> heckling him about is Linux choice, because to him Fedora was much
>> better... Ah, the mother ship had come to take me home....
>>
>> Even got a 10% raise over my last company.
>>
>> So, thank you for everyone that asked, and cared, or sent me a lead,
>> etc. Its nice to know somebody has your back.
>>
>> Now, all I need to do is get my 20 year old step-daughter a stable
>> "while I am going to college" job... But one could only hope for so much.
>>
>> Take Care
>> Kevin Fries
>>
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