To whom it may concern, I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python and other Open Standards!"
I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. Since then I have been unable to find work either as a software engineer or in any other capacity, even at service jobs. I've sent resumes and have been consistently ignored. What I have been doing in the meantime is to be a full time homemaker and parent. As a hobby to keep me sane, I am attempting to retrain part time at home as a jeweler and silversmith, and I sometimes used Python for generating and manipulating code for CNC machines. For my own peace of mind, however, I very much want to be doing software work again because I feel so greatly ashamed to have dedicated my life to learning and working in the field only to now find myself on the scrap heap. I find it highly ironic that my solution is still being advertised on the Python web site but that I, the author of that solution, am now a long term unemployment statistic. Please, if there is anyone out there who needs a highly creative and highly skilled software designer for new and completely original work, then for the love of God I implore you to contact me. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Sincerely, Andrew Jonathan Fine BEE, MSCS, 15 years experience, 5 in Python, the rest in C/C++, about 1/3 embedded design and device drivers, and 2/3 in applications. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
