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[Dave S]

Hey dude, nice one!  Trains = doubleplus good!

I also got a new job a short while ago, and it's almost perfect for me as jobs 
go - seeing that I've been trying really hard to avoid having a career or 
doing anything corporate.

One day a week, six hours teaching web design and development to second year 
Multimedia students at the university which is about 15 minutes walk from my 
house.

Very nice place to work indeed, and my boss is the least boss-like boss I have 
met in a long time.  (Many of our conversations so far have been about bass 
guitars and recording albums, as he's also a keen player!)

I got the job through a friend of a friend, who got another job in Switzerland 
so had to leave at short notice.  Phonecall one day, got the job over a 
casual lunchtime chat the next day.  They've now offered it to me until at 
least June and are making noises about offering it to me permanently.

I'm pretty stoked about it all.  Although I haven't been paid yet, once it 
starts coming in, it should be just about enough that I can cover our living 
expenses with it, so basically won't have to do any other work.  Though I am 
intending to carry on with a bit of freelancing when the right projects come 
along.

The rest of the time: life, music, activism, bread making, vegetable growing 
and so on.

I'm not intending to do it forever, but for the next 3 or 4 years would be 
ideal, so we can settle down properly, sort the house out a bit and all that 
kind of stuff.  After that, I think we're going to be leaving Nottingham, 
though who knows what the future holds.

So yeah, hooray for jobs that don't suck - especially part time ones that pay 
well enough to give you loads of free time to do other stuff!

Cheers,

~Dave


On Friday 14 December 2007, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> well gang, it looks like yours truly got a job here in vienna working
> on the realtime control operating systems for trains (yo Peter) all
> over europe .. alcatel-thales, here i come.  yes, truly, this is *The
> Man*, but hey .. i like trains .. i like realtime programming, i like
> embedded systems, and i like quality engineering.  final offer is
> being made on tuesday, so: w00t!  and a big fuck-you-too to this
> jobless year and the reasons for it ..