Subj : Re: How to get paid to use my many programming skills? (was: Free Oracle)
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : alfps
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 04:55 am

* Robert Maas:
> see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t:

Well, you don't exactly make it easy for anyone to contact you:

    E-mail: rem642b@Yahoo.Com with Subject field starting with the special
    word ReSpam2002Jan08 -- Then immediately after sending me the e-mail, log
    into my Web-alert system (username guest1, password free, unless you have
    your own individual account), then click on button to see if I'm online,
    and click on button to send me an online alert letting me know to look at
    the e-mail you already sent.


> (Note: I'm still available for work programming, such as Lisp or Java.)

Why don't you contact a few companies in the vicinity of where you live.

Look neat, be nice, and just visit them.

Try to focus on what you can do for them (good technical problem solver, fast
learner, putnam winner etc.), and don't mention all that archaic technology...


> cruddy Fortran they had, and when Hans Moravec told me how R.E.P.

.... and don't drop names like George Bush (or Hans Moravec) that causually in
mid-stream.  That's darned _dumb_.  You're begging for a job and don't want to
emphasize how far you've fallen.  Of course it's difficult to get across what
you know without mentioning that.  But the point is, what you know isn't
what's interesting to an employer, because all that's mostly old sh*t; the
important thing is your capacity for solving, working, and learning.  Btw.,
don't use words like "cruddy" or "darned" or "sh*t".  At least not at first.

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