Tomorrow will be 2 months since my last day of work on my last contract job (the one that the company ended early [for financial reasons]). As I mentioned a few days ago, there haven’t been all that many opportunities around the Fargo area … at least not opportunities that have peaked my interest. A couple of hours after I posted that entry I received an email from […]

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On August 14, I entered the land of the unemployed yet again. This damn economic situation has really thrown me for a loop. I lost my job in October 2008 due to budget cuts at the company (they sell truck accessories and such, and with truck sales down, their sales were down too). I worked as a contract web developer from December 2008 through March 2009 (it was a […]

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… at my new job. Well, it was only 3 days, but So far so good. And I like it. It’s a small office, I think there are 9 of us total, including me (the IT department is only 3, including me). The company has offices in other locations, so it’s not a small company.

I’ve even gotten to do actual work already. […]

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Wow. It’s been a while since I blogged, hasn’t it. No posts in February or March. I guess I haven’t been doing anything blogworthy for the past couple months. LOL

What have I been doing for the past couple months? I was working and looking for a job. Huh? Well, I was working a contract job. It was supposed to be a 3 month contract with the option […]

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I got an email from my contact at Volt on Wednesday nite that the company I had interviewed at twice was ready to extend an offer to me for the contract position with possible extension. She called me yesterday afternoon to fill me in on the details. I accepted. I start on Monday.

Next week sounds like it’s going to be a getting up to speed type of […]

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