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[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> The Wanderer writes:
> 
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> 
>>> The Wanderer writes:

>>>> (It probably doesn't help that I leave for a job interview in
>>>> an hour.)
>>> 
>>> How did it go?
>> 
>> As far as I could tell... the first part I couldn't tell, the
>> interviewer was the type of Hispanic whom I find almost unreadable.
>> The second part, however, seemed to go fairly well, and they tell
>> me I'll know one way or another by early in the week (possibly even
>> Monday).
>> 
>> I used my activity, such as it is, on these lists as part of my
>> credentials... I was pleased to note that one of the people, at
>> least, did appear to have heard of MPlayer. <grin>
> 
> :-)
> 
> Hmm, what kind of job did you apply for, btw?

A "Co-Op" position with the local board of education - my brother has
one just like it, and discovered that due to an administrative screw-up
there's a lot of work which was supposed to be done over the summer
which got missed, and now with college starting they're about to lose at
least two-thirds of their workforce. So it's an opening.

The actual job description is basically help=desk troubleshooting work
for school-system computers, which are almost exclusively Windows XP;
there's some hardware work (installations, upgrades, repairs and the
like) involved, as well, but most of it is "this person is having a
problem, go fix it". Or so the interviewers (and said brother) claim.

It's not much, but it's computer-related, it's less gruntwork than what
I do now, and despite the lower hourly wage the annual pay is somewhere
between two and six times what I'm getting now - so I'm hoping for it.

(An amusing thing is that my brother, having been on the job four
months, is currently redesigning their help-desk database system from
the ground up... mostly because he saw how it was being done before,
said "This is just terrible", and showed one boss the basics of a better
way to do it.)

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       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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