Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Brunning
2010/1/14 Novocastrian_Nomad : > Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th > century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a > specific geographic location. Pair programming and co-location with your end users both hugely increase real productivity, in

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: > Novocastrian_Nomad writes: >> I know whereof I speak, I have been fortunate enough to work remotely >> (across the country) for the last ten years, for two different employers. > > Some like working remotely, others don't. I had to work remotely for my > last couple of jobs.

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Boddie wrote: > On 28 Des 2009, 08:32, Andrew Jonathan Fine > wrote: >> 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. > > It occurs

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >> Mountain View? > > I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given > that's w

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Novocastrian_Nomad writes: > I know whereof I speak, I have been fortunate enough to work remotely > (across the country) for the last ten years, for two different employers. Some like working remotely, others don't. I had to work remotely for my last couple of jobs. I hated it. I want to actu

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Phlip
Aahz wrote: In article <6a12ed15-e7f9-43ab-9b90-984525808...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Novocastrian_Nomad wrote: Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a specific geographic location. Because

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Boddie
On 28 Des 2009, 08:32, Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > >   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. It occurs to me that in some domains,

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article <6a12ed15-e7f9-43ab-9b90-984525808...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Novocastrian_Nomad wrote: > >Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th >century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a >specific geographic location. Because it works be

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Novocastrian_Nomad
Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a specific geographic location. This is the 21st century with climate change, carbon footprints, broadband internet, telecommuting, tele-presence, telephones, fax m

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article <7x4omosdly@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> >> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >> Mountain View? > >I'm surprised there aren't

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article , Robert Kern wrote: >On 2010-01-14 13:14 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> >>> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >>> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >>> Mountain View? >> >> I'm surpri

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Paul Rubin wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given that's where

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-01-14 13:14 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, giv

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Rubin
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding > Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near > Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given that's where Brand G is and so forth.

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-13 Thread Phlip
Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: 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 consi

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-13 Thread Aahz
In article , Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > >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

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
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. You don't write if you are willing to relocate, and if yes, if outside the USA is an option. We hir

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread John Bokma
Andrew Jonathan Fine writes: > On Dec 28, 9:20 am, webtourist wrote: >> Andrew I'm very sorry to hear your situation. >> This is, I don't know how else to put it, so hard to believe - that >> someone like you has been jobless since 2005, >> well over 2 years before the "big bust". >> Good luck t

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Rodrick Brown
Move to NYC, Chicago, or Boston and try to land a job working in the financial industry they're always hiring and Python is getting very popular amongst the quantitative and computation finance sectors. You may need to use head hunters two I recommended are Connections NY, Open Systems, and Tek Sy

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Jonathan Fine
On Dec 28, 6:21 am, Steve Holden wrote: > Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > > 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 2

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread eric_dex...@msn.com
On Dec 28, 1:32 am, Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > 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

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Propad
Hello Mr. Fine, I just read your mail on the Python Google Group. I've been in situations of searching a job many times now - in the meantime, it's not employments but projects I'm looking for, as I'm working as a contractor. While I'm currently doing reasonably well, I've never been quite comforta

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
er.com/blogs/tayseer From: Steve Holden To: python-list@python.org Sent: Mon, December 28, 2009 3:21:38 PM Subject: Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job! Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Steve Holden
Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > 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

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread joy99
On Dec 28, 12:32 pm, Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > 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. > > Sinc

Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-27 Thread Andrew Jonathan Fine
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 engin