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Rosa sum ergo spam sum
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: Rosa sum ergo spam sum
You'll forgive me for a little skepticism, I hope...?
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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IIRC you can drop the "sum" which would be assumed
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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cogito ergo Nihil enim somni
is the best I can come up with.
I had to time-travel back to the year 3 and chat so some roman soldiers, who talked for ages about their fields and who they loved, for some reason.
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Back in High School I could have solved that for you, but I can't improve on what you two have come up with. Perhaps 'sans somnis' might work in place of 'insomnis' but it's been 40+ years since I've had a Roman to talk to.
Aquilae non faecat in effigiebus! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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... is great. Just wanted to say it. I don'T know how much read & search work it takes to gather all the articles, but I really enjoy reading it. And Kent has definitely a talent for one-liners.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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You are too kind. Thank you very much!
TTFN - Kent
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I second that! The one-liners really make for an enjoyable read 
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Rage wrote: Kent has definitely a talent for one-liners
I third that...coffee and insider each weekday morning is the routine. I won't even look at code until I have read at least a few Insider articles and checked the lounge.
My boss (or so she thinks) hates it, but can't argue that part of the job is staying current...plus, I work enough off hours to easily make up the difference. Thanks Kent! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Since our company grow a new head it's barely tolerable here anymore. So I decided to look for something else.
Do you have any experience to find online work?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Ping your network - former colleagues, people you know from Consulting companies etc.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
The console is a black place [taken from Q&A]
How to ask a question
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Unless you excel in a specific field which could have you relocated easily improving your salary, your best bets are two methods:
1. ping your close colleagues: contact people you know in other companies, contact your providers (you need to trust them a lot to do this)...
2. dive into the big ocean of web sites which are used to search for work.
In both cases it helps a lot if you have years of experience and/or you excel in something which moreover is not easily found.
In any case, good luck! 
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Online searches are generally a lot of work for almost no reward. Most employment agencies the same; if you find a good one that actually does proper searches on your behalf you will be very lucky. I had most success by applying to companies direct and acting as my own agent. As others have suggested use your contacts, ex colleagues, even ex bosses.
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Try consulting companies.
They find the work for you. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Does anyone here work for, or have dealt with, iGate? I just had an interview with them and was, until now, completely confused as to what they were. I thought they were high end recruiters, but they are an outsourcing company.
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IGATE is a services company that is organized in various verticals like Product & Engineering Solutions. It is more than an outsourcing company. Of course, they do leverage resources across countries.
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10am taxi pickup, 12:15 flight to offshore, ~13:30 make it to platform, can't land due to weather, fly to Kirkwall, re-fuel, fly to Aberdeen, sit about, cancel flight 17:30, 06:00am check-in the tomorrow. The summary of a sh*t day!
My arse cheeks, legs, back, shoulders are all aching. The 19 passenger configuration of the Eurocopter_EC225_Super_Puma[^] has to be the most uncomfortable aircraft I have flown in.
Gets home and finds my 15U 19" rack has arrived, just need to assemble the thing now. Good job men don't read the instructions, because they are of no use.
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DaveAuld wrote: The 19 passenger configuration of the Eurocopter_EC225_Super_Puma[^] has to be the most uncomfortable aircraft I have flown in.
The Swiss Airforce (or what shall represent an air force, they fly on ly during office times) have AS 332 Super Puma[^]s, and from what I have heard they seem to be more comfortable and saver than the EC 225 version...
At least they are considered save enough to participate at Air Shows[^] with them.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
The console is a black place [taken from Q&A]
How to ask a question
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Sounds like complaining to me. Look at it this way, you could be starving like in some places of the world. Or you could be dead. Nah, your idea of a bad day is being stuck in an airport with stewardesses. Might wanna realign that there focus to be more positive.
Jeremy Falcon
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I think you have got the wrong idea about offshore heliports!
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Yeah, but you do get big hairy oil workers in short skirts bringing round coffee and peanuts...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah, but you do get big hairy oil workers in short skirts bringing round coffee and peanuts...
That's called a silver lining my friend.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maybe in the US it is... But not round these parts!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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DaveAuld wrote:
I think you have got the wrong idea about offshore heliports! |
You could always bring a picture of a stewardess then.
Jeremy Falcon
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You seem to be implying that spending a few hours with stewardesses is not a distressing experience.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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