jack_codes

I was in the Army on a training exercise in Louisiana preparing to go to Kosovo. We were in a flight unit (helicopters) and loading up a convoy to the airfield. We got the call over the radio about it and thought, at first, that is was part of the training exercise. We get to the airfield, setup comms, and get chatter about it not being an exercise. Since they grounded the birds pretty much all week we basically stayed glued to the tv in the hangar for the duration.

It was an odd time since we were technically in peace time and suddenly thrown into this situation. A year later (Mar. '03) we were watching jets fly over Iraq on tv while we preparing for a funeral detail for one of our Blackhawk pilots.

Still hard to believe it's now so long ago.

When I play guitar or mandolin my mouth often moves in some sort of way as if keeping time. I recorded a video one time and noticed it. Now I'm a little self-conscious about it but it's a bit relieving to hear it's pretty common / innate.

is he free to ignore the advice? Or does he have to leave?

are they free to ignore the advice? Or do they have to leave?

I find this extremely helpful, thank you. Presenting the situation the way you mentioned in the last paragraph is honest and presents it in a very positive way. I also like the idea of project/employment sections. Much appreciated!

I've lucked into some great places being cool with part-time work. That said, just yesterday I spoke with a recruiter for a 40hr gig and they had deep concerns that I've had work overlap (my part-time business + 40hr contract work) on my resume. I've pulled out of consideration for that role because of it but am thinking of adjusting my resume to not show overlap. I would've thought it showed drive but I guess - at least in some recruiting circles - that it causes concern.

Should I remove my business from my resume? A lot of my exciting experience comes from my business whereas the 40hr stuff is just standard work I've been doing for years.

Maybe not a 'trick' but writing comments before I dive into the code helps me structure my thoughts and then piecemeal the work.

I haven't actually tried running the client but I really enjoyed reading through the script and learning about the approach.

Same here - the default search seems woefully inadequate at least as far as I use it. If I do a partial search sometimes I get back docs I want but if I type in more specificity (more through muscle memory while typing, not necessarily trying to narrow down the results) then what I'm searching for disappears from the list even though it's more precise.

We have Confluence pages that no one reads but it's nice we go through the exercise, I guess.

A colleague just bought a new desktop and set it up last weekend. He ran into Microsoft wanting him to login to a MS account _on initial install_. He ended up having to go into the BIOS to disable networking so he could force the installer to let him initially setup a local account. I don't know if this is for every install and is just my anecdotal perspective.

SEEKING WORK | Boston Area | Remote Email: scjackson@linux.com

I'm a software developer (MS CS) with the bulk of my professional experience in PHP, Drupal, and the related stacks. I've been solely a remote developer for the past 10 years. I'm interested in anything remote, part-time, and love to work mostly on back-end tooling although in my day-to-day I work on everything from the backend to the frontend.

Experience with: PHP, Drupal, Laravel, React, LAMP, Golang and various other tools (buzzword and otherwise) over the past 13 years.

I had this same issue as a teen in the late 90s with an old 1984 Pontiac Phoenix. If it sat longer than 2 hours it would start just fine or if I started the car within 15 minutes of last using it. In that ~2hr gap if I needed to use the car I would have to spray some carb cleaner into the engine to get it started.