Subj : Re: Resume questions, how convey? (was: How much should I charge fo...)
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : rem642b
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 12:13 am

> From: alex.g...@gmail.com
> That's one hell of an achievement.

I find your comparison of my actual achievement with a mythical place
of eternal torture to be offensive. Please re-phrase whatever you
intended to say in a less offensive form.

> Robert, how did you sink so low?

What are you talking about?? I've never done anything criminal or
abusive or anything else where the word "low" would apply to my morals.

> Drugs?

Only the ones Donald Kennedy must have been using when he diverted
government research funds for his private yacht and summer home,
thereby throwing my place of employment (Stanford University) into
discrace in the eyes of all research funding agencies. When Stanford
got fed up and fired him, Science (journal of AAAS) did a really stupid
thing: hired him as their chief editor. That lowered Science as a
reputed journal in my eyes, and I cringe every time I see one of his
stupid editorials in that now-tainted journal.

> Trauma?

No. When I got laid off because Stanford had no more research funds, I
assumed that since I had 21 years computer programming experience I'd
be able to get another job very soon. It took a long period of
unemployment to convince me little by little that the whole world had
stopped being decent to nice guys like me.

> Insanity?

No. I worked hard on writing a quick resume, and then worked even
harder on an even better resume, and spent long hours, until about 4AM
every night, scanning job ads and documentating all job leads of any
kind and everything I did such as when I responded to a job ad etc. I
accumulated appx. nine (9) megabytes of such notes before I finally got
burned out from exhaustion and couldn't continue at that pace any
longer. Part of my exhaustion was that my wife was beating me up
several times a week in 1993, and abusing our children several times a
day, and I was helpless to convince her to stop the abuse, and the
police refused to ever do anything until early 1994 when they finally
took her away on psychiatric hold making me a single parent. Yes,
insanity, hers. She was totally bonkers. Apparently our not having
money to buy lots of expensive stuff was beyond her coping skills.
Did you see the desperate pleas I posted in mid-late 1993 and early
1994 trying to find anyone who would help me get her out of our lives
so her abuse of us would finally stop? For example, she destroyed her
clock radio, and tried to destroy my color TV, because she truly
believed the neighbors had planted voodoo control devices in them to
eavesdrop on everything she did. While I was in my room scanning job
ads etc., and she was supposed to be watching our children, she gave
our 3.5 yr old son an electric iron, plugged in and turned on, to play
with, and then just left him unattended while she went in the kitchen.
She was totally bonkers, and a danger to everyone around her.

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