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I've been traveling for over a month now... make it stop

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Red Squirrel said:
This.

My first job was help desk. Did I want to answer the phones all day? Not really, but it gave me work experience and got me in the company. From there I moved up to server tech then eventually NOC (which is kinda downgrade but better pay, better hours, less stress, so it was upgrade imo). Also, stop expecting to get a good job at a company coming off the street. The good jobs go to internal applicants, their jobs then go outside. Sometimes it's a pretty big chain reaction before a job even has to go outside. You want one of those jobs to get you in the company so you can later on apply internally to a better job. Don't expect this to be instantanious, it could be years before an internal job opens up. Companies today are laying off more than they are hiring. Consider yourself very lucky if you even get in to a company that is in your field.
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Red Squirrel said:
This.

My first job was help desk. Did I want to answer the phones all day? Not really, but it gave me work experience and got me in the company. From there I moved up to server tech then eventually NOC (which is kinda downgrade but better pay, better hours, less stress, so it was upgrade imo). Also, stop expecting to get a good job at a company coming off the street. The good jobs go to internal applicants, their jobs then go outside. Sometimes it's a pretty big chain reaction before a job even has to go outside. You want one of those jobs to get you in the company so you can later on apply internally to a better job. Don't expect this to be instantanious, it could be years before an internal job opens up. Companies today are laying off more than they are hiring. Consider yourself very lucky if you even get in to a company that is in your field.
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Your advice does not apply to special snowflakes.
 
So reason trident for hired in the first place is the boring job somebody has to do... My guess testing that company does not want to waste their good developers at. Usually these are contacted out to cheapo outsourcing agencies, but looks like they got even better deal with trident.

Now there's nothing wrong with doing testing, but my guess picky fella doesn't like it too much
 
77 is kinda hot for an office. That comes up to 25C. That's the typical alarm threshold for most of the buildings we monitor. 30C (86F) it turns into a major and requires immediate attention.
 
Red Squirrel said:
77 is kinda hot for an office. That comes up to 25C. That's the typical alarm threshold for most of the buildings we monitor. 30C (86F) it turns into a major and requires immediate attention.
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Alarm threshold for an office building or alarm threshold for a server/infrastructure room/building?
 
Red Squirrel said:
77 is kinda hot for an office. That comes up to 25C. That's the typical alarm threshold for most of the buildings we monitor. 30C (86F) it turns into a major and requires immediate attention.
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Wow, that's some terrible aim you have.
The point is over there.
You missed it badly.
 
Well, I have a couple followup interviews this upcoming week. We'll see how they go.

It's hard to schedule them while I'm working full-time. Fortunately, these guys are willing to have them start after work ends for me. I'm tired of remote technical interviews but whatever. I'm worried that these might go to the full day interviews though. If that happens, I'm going to be in a bit of a bind and I'll have to figure out a way to do them while not giving off too much suspicion.

People at work already know I'm investing in an exit strategy as I've been pretty open about the fact that I'm keeping my options open. They're fine with that but they don't know how far I've gone in pursuing an exit strategy. The reason they're fine with that notion is because people are kind of dropping quickly from the company because the numbers aren't showing growth and yeah... whatever.

It's also a startup and so it's natural to keep options open because lord knows the company might go under rather quickly.

The general direction of the company is not so different from this figure:
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lxskllr said:
Is it? I thought housing was expensive. What does a bottom end apt go for there?
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It's hard to say. $1500/month in San jose is obtainable but it's hard. I think hundreds of people are emailing for every listing. It's a very competitive market. That's just for a 200-300sqft fifty year old shack...
 
Well, boys, I got fired today! Poor fit, so to speak. It was clear to them (and me) that I didn't want to be there and do things the way they were doing them. (It was quite poorly managed at many times; lack of vision, direction, initiative and so forth) So they fired me because we came to a large crossroads where it was obvious that the methodology they were using wasn't working. I don't think firing me will have fixed their problems.
 
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