New in Town and Sinking Fast...

[Bryan O'Neal]

I have applied for several positions at GD and been trumped by inside
movers. Or just never contacted. The market is hard rite now - I have been
looking for a year and a half without any luck - two degrees, a half dozen
certs, and 15 years of experience and I can't find a thing. So I understand.

To that end - if you want them I have an old dell desktop that is dead slow
(I belive due to a bad IDE controller) and a 19inch monitor that is a bit
fuzzy but still OK. But you need to have your own transport to pick them up.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Sorry to hear about your situation.  What I can offer is that Godaddy is
> always looking for tech support.  Worked there a while back for about a
> year.  Was interesting and they did not treat their tech support folks very
> good back then.  I have a developer friend that works at Godaddy and he says
> they treat the developers good.
>
> So the bottom line is it is a job and it pays well enough.  If you can
> learn to sell you can make a few extra bucks.  And Bob Parsons likes to give
> away a lot of stuff.
>
> That would be my suggestion for anyone down on their luck or trying to kick
> start their tech career.
>
> I see you have a yahoo email address.  Did you know you can use the
> computers in the library while you are waiting for a replacement or upgrade?
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/15/10, Tim Bogart <timbogart at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Tim Bogart <timbogart at yahoo.com>
> Subject: New in Town and Sinking Fast...
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 12:22 PM
>
>
> Hello Fellow Penguins,
>
> My name is Tim Bogart.  And I'm in need of some friends right now.  I am a
> long time Linux supporter and I need some help.
>
> I have been in Phoenix off and on now for the last 14 months.  I have been
> out of work for 7 of them.  I have a toshiba laptop that has just bit the
> dust.  The hard drive seems to have gone south on me, and the cd drive
> hasn't worked since I bought the machine used in South Carolina a year and a
> half ago.
>
> I need a machine to stay connected to the web and get a job.  I work Dice,
> Careerbuilder, Monster, Indeed Jobing.com and jobfox, but can't do anything
> without a computer.
>
> I have very limited funds.  I have a good samaritain who is letting me
> sleep on her couch right now and keeping a roof over my head.  Food is my
> own responsibility.  So, my life functions are okay, and I am in good
> health, and don't need money.  But, without a computer, I'm screwed.
>
> I need somebody to donate a hard drive or a cd-rom to me to get things
> working here so I can get on the job boards and find work.  I just don't
> have the money to go and get a new hard drive.  Maybe I could do a network
> install somehow?  I don't know.  I'm open to suggestions.  Another thing I
> just found out is that I can't use the computers at the library without a
> local library card, and I can't get one of those without an electric bill or
> something else to prove to the library that I am a local person.  Apparently
> they don't trust the DMV because while I've been here I have gotten my
> vehicle registered in Arizona and have turned my WV drivers license in for
> an AZ license.  Oh well.
>
> Anyway, if anybody has any ideas or is in a position to help me, please
> call me on my cell phone at 281 450 2763.  Any and all suggestions are
> welcome.  Oh, and BTW... the lady who is letting me sleep on her couch has
> made it clear that using her computer is definately not a permanent option,
> so if you have a suggestion, or can help...call.  Sending me an email will
> result in the suggestion sitting there until I can somehow get on a computer
> again.  Maybe somebody out there has enough parts laying around to cobble
> something together or help me do it.
>
> Thanks ever so much, everybody.
>
> Tim Bogart
>
> Want to read about a couple of my contributions?
>
> (Yes, I'm the guy who started the OS presence at FOSE in DC.)
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/04/21/1044236/Linux-And-The-G-Men-FOSE-2000?art_pos=7
>
> I'm also published ...
> http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=red_hat_linux7&seqNum=4
>
>
>
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