Search continues

Continue to get leads, but no offers yet. Spoke to a new recruiter today and had a phone screen with a major gaming company. Also a former employee connected me to a VC manager leaving his VC fund to become CEO of a startup he founded. We'll see what next week brings.

More interviewing

Had a half day interview at a wholly owned subsidiary of a major corporation. Its like a startup within the belly of an established company. Great life-work balance, stability, benefits, but a fully open source shop with an entrepreneurial spirit. I enjoyed the interview quite a bit. It would be an amazing learning environment for me to progress in some new technologies I have yet to work on professionally. It would also allow me to work on a very high trafficked site, something the many startups I worked for never survived long enough to achieve. I have another interview with another established company tomorrow. The search continues.

Somewhere in all this interviewing I will align and one of these will pop.

Yesterday's interview

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Met with an academy award winning film producer. He has a movie site, a niche (specific genre) Netflix). But the guy and his CFO know nothing about technology. I had trouble entering their site and playing the free movies before my interview. We left things with me going home and exploring their site and sending the CEO (the Oscar winner) an email. In it I told him what was wrong with the site, and what the company needed to really succeed/compete.
We'll see what they are willing to invest in the company and in me.
It's so interesting, now two days in a row I have met with people who have a great business idea, but don't get the internet. They hire others to build them a site as cheap as they can so they can move this business idea from the market they know well online. They have no clue that once they do that they are a technology company, and if they don't invest properly and enough in their technology platform their great business idea will fail. They think they can just throw up a website and continue to pour money into the other areas that if it were a bricks and mortar business would help the company to succeed thinking they can save money on the website side. These aren't companies whose website is just a brochure for their bricks and mortar these are people with ecommerce platforms, and online business models. We'll see the response I get to the email I sent CEO at his request. He claimed he didn't get it, and he didn't know enough and needed someone like me. We'll see if he is smart enough to understand what I'm telling him and willing enough to put his money where his mouth is.

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and check me out on the Social Stock Market

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Interviews continue

Had a good meeting today but I don't think their timeline works for me, they are in no hurry.
Really enjoying playing the social stock market on empireavenue.com just as my father is pushing me to learn about real world investing. The social stock market value is a combo of play money, managing a portfolio and your social network activity. Its causing me to evaluate how I use Facebook and Twitter and encouraging me to post more. This has the side effect of raising my klout.com social relevancy score.
We'll see how tomorrows interview goes, and what a fun surf I'll have in the morning and how much fun I can have on empireavenue.com.



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Is the economy going to effect my search?

Only time will really tell. And I don't believe it will. I believe whether I get a job now is about me not the economy. This time off since my last full time gig has been a time of huge personal growth for me, besides that I am in the best shape of my life. I'm ready I want to work, more then I ever have in my life. And its not just for a paycheck. There are experiences and interactions I am craving at the moment that go far beyond bringing home a paycheck a few times a month. Not that the increase in cash flow won't be a really nice addition to my life. But the daily structure, the mental engagement, and the social interaction with a particular set of shared interest peers is what I am really after at the moment. Analysts say this isn't another tech bubble, that investment has been in line with real innovation and real value, and that unless there is a sustained hit to the tech stock market lasting months the present tech boom should continue for some time. I have 2 interviews today, one tomorrow, and one Thursday. I think I'll be going to work everyday in an office in September, but we'll see won't we.

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The Job Search continues

I feel good. I continue to interview. I have not aligned with the right job yet as I am not posting about receiving and taking an offer, but I still feel good about it because I continue to interview. I have 4 interviews this week so far and 2 of them seem at least on paper to be more in line with what I'd really like to do. Last week I had a final interview with one company, but they told me they would be taking 10-15 days to make a decision. Plenty of time to keep looking and find some thing even better or a competitive offer.
Despite what's going on in Washington and the greater US economy the tech sector is booming. While unemployment is at 9+% nationwide this sector is at 3%. I am poised to take advantage of that. Besides beinga senior LAMP developer and a great hands on manager/early stage executive I have been teaching myself Ruby on Rails, and playing with node.js to get my cops really current. With all of these interviews its just a matter of any day of aligning with the right opportunity.

In the meantime I'm playing with some social status sites http://www.klout.com, http://photorank.me, and now http://www.empireavenue.com/. I'm also playing with Google+. This is of course when I'm inside and not outside riding my bicycle or surfing. Staying in shape and enjoying the wonderful summer weather is a priority not just while I am looking for work, but will continue to be important to me once I am fully employed and going in to an office every day.

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