Jobs --- Layed off and the Lay of the land

So first up the entry I wrote on Dec 15th, but was never published due to logistical problems.

Subject: Layed Off.

Got layed off today (Dec 15th), which rather sucks. We had a clue things were going poorly for a while, and it was likely that the board would take out a percentage of the company sooner or later. My bet was on Jan. And with the sounds of impending doom I revised the date to Jan 2 and added myself, my whole department to the list. But we didn't make it that far - so now I join the statistics of holiday layoffs. And that is pretty much the worst of it. There where more survivors than I thought there'd be. And life goes on. Plus this was a good bit longer than the 6mo I figured for the job when I got it. I lasted longer than a year, which is impressive.

In related news - Friday I go to an interview with the Digital Library Research & Prototyping team at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library. A very long name but a very cool job - I've already talked with the team lead a bit and I'm excited. Anyhow wish me luck.

Subject: The Lay of the Land

So the interview went ok. The follow up went well. The job looked very cool indeed. The offer was low, the negotiations -- Mother says you don't negotiate with the gov -- went very very poorly and put me off the job a good bit. But in the end they arrived at an acceptable place. And Rachel claims you don't have to deal with that kind of stuff on a daily basis, so . . .

In the mean time I've had some good interest from other quarters, including some contract work stuff that looks quite promising. Also an interview with Deep Web Tech that went very well. On the whole the local market seems to be doing much better than I expected, and there is cool work to be had.

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