Comments | joel: I'm tired but I'm working, yeah.

joel

I'm tired but I'm working, yeah.

Jan 19, 2009 18:57

Wednesday January 14th, 2009 approximately 10h20 PST: "T minus 0"

T minus 0hrs - I am laid off
T plus 3hrs - Post to Twitter and Facebook: "Laid off from PBwiki and looking for my next adventure! http://sargo.com/joel/resume.pdf"
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reynaldo77 January 20 2009, 21:10:17 UTC

Hooray for Mystery Company #1! Glad to hear it worked out so well... good luck w/ the new job :)

krellan February 2 2009, 00:58:07 UTC

Wow, that's fantastic news. I didn't know you were laid off from PBwiki.

There's a saying that if you're really good at what you do, and others find it valuable to them as well, you will always be able to find work doing that. Therefore, you must be good at what you do :)

I was also lucky myself. After being laid off for only a few weeks, I now work at a very small company in Mountain View doing Linux distro-packaging stuff for their appliance-box that they ship. It's a great job and the people I work with are very smart and also fun to be with. I've learned a lot. I hope I can keep the job for a long while: I'm only a contractor with them but would love to go full-time in the future if it continues to be such a good job.

joel June 16 2010, 00:27:38 UTC

For the historical record:

Mystery Company #1 was NetBooks, now Working Point.
Mystery Company #2 was Sun Microsystems, now Oracle.