Posted on 06/12/2016 8:16:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz
I've had a pretty good relationship with the CDC here in Atlanta. With one group, I stayed for six years, did very well by them, and supported two major web applications.
Things change, though, and when my division decided on a technology that I had no interest in -- Dynamics -- I moved on to another promising group.
That group was.... um... well, how can I say it. It was underwhelming in terms of procedure and culture. Developers are treated as commodities, and our knowledge and opinions are not barely noticed, much less respected.
Further, the technology I was hired for was not what they really needed. They like doing everything in out-of-the-box Sharepoint, and I am a C#.NET/VB.NET guru.
So, I'm up on June 27. Let me know if you hear of anything for a stellar MVC 5 (Razor) / Entity Framework / C#/VB.NET JQuery / SQL computer developer guy who is well spoken, writes well, has great 'soft skills' with people, skilled with web security (taught by the feds!) and can bench press 3 pounds.
I'm staying in Atlanta though. Thought I'd put this on Free Republic because they say to network, and this is the best place in the world to do that. :)
That’s fn right, down to the metal. Etch it.
Dang, does 6502 count? Ada???
My deepest sympathies go out to you.
SharePoint is in a netherworld. It is too difficult to use by itself to get anything interesting done.
You have to do real web development in order to get anything done, and then you may as well start from scratch rather than confining yourself to SharePoint.
6502 is where I started.
Laz, life will go on and this too shall pass. Well, mine maybe sooner than your’s but what joy is there in having the same job like my Dad did for 40 years? I was groomed to believe that my first ‘real’ job would be my life’s work. It turned out to be working at a car wash in Pittsburg, California for the summer. My real job turned-out to be a Dad to three kids and two step-kids later. May your next step be as interesting and fraught with happiness and intrigue as mine.
Have you looked at Eaton Corp, Peachtree City/Atlanta, Laz? sample current opening:
http://eaton-veterans.jobs/peachtree-city-ga/software-engineer/AFF079FBB7C44CB9A032E64858C8C83D/job/
Not all openings are posted. As you probably know to do by now, use the back door and work top down: Top executive refers to mid executive refers to department manager, who’s going to interview an exec referral of course, and who can walk your resume into HR as an addl interviews/pending hire. Good luck!
Oops. I didn’t intend to make Spock so emotional.
actually you didn’t say MVCM you said MVC. You’re a .net developer right? Using Razor instead of aspx. I sent you a string for that on Indeed.
“Real programmers write in assembler on the bare metal.”
been there, done that. including designing and coding a Nova 1200 OS punched onto Hollerith cards and assembled on a cross-assembler on a CDC 6600, with binary output to paper tape, with said paper tape then read into Nova 1200 via hand-toggled boot loader.
I like Firefox a lot better.
Get a suntan and an H1B.
Go to the Georgia Guidestones and pray to Gaia with 666 chants that you will be one of the 500 mill.
Your solution will come in a psychic trance.
I’m retired in December of this year......... tired, going fishing, hunting etc.... done.
Good luck Laz !
LOL !
Sharepoint sucks.
Then I shall take your job. Apprentice me! :)
You will be happy to be no longer “part of the problem”.
The CDC has been remarkably apolitical, for the most part. On the issue I care the most about, they published a report about firearms (when illegally ordered to do so) that Obama could not use. It reached mostly pro-gun conclusions. Tom Freidan is a director who is a man of science, not so much a man of politics. I had a chance to meet him and I told him I appreciated his apolitical nature.
During the period when his job was in jeopardy, and people were egging on his lynching, I warned folks that the next appointee might not be as fair on the gun issue, among others.
I left Federal employment after some 16 years ten years ago, or more. Best thing I ever did. The problem is too many Feds. There was one less when I left. Much happier as part of the solution.
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