So, my last day at Linuxcare was on Friday and I’m now officially between jobs.
I thank my lucky stars that I have the requisite skills to have survived so many rounds of lay-offs, was able to resign of my own volition in my own good time, and secured multiple other offers in the midst of this economic downturn.
I’m glad I’m not a junior admin any more. I interviewed several to replace me at Linuxcare and the job market is not a pretty place to be selling your wares right now. If you’re unemployed, you need to have some senior level skills to find decent work right now.
So, this week will see me viewing apartments in Palo Alto and probably enjoying a few biking trips, as I make the most of my free time before going to work for Google next week. If there’s time, I intend to brush up on some of my low level TCP/IP and programming skills. I desperately need to brush up on my C coding.