Congrats! I'm currently looking and would love a john environment like that. Bart Saunders <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 16, 2010 12:17 PM, "Ian Santopietro" <<a href="mailto:isantop@gmail.com">isantop@gmail.com</a>> 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" <<a href="mailto:kfries6@gmail.com">kfries6@gmail.com</a>> 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 >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-co mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </div>