Get a job related to Ruby and Rails

To long for getting a job related to Ruby on Rails was part of my dream to get a better job.

Unfortunately, I am after to get a new job at all, and learning Rails first is not part of my strategy.

So, I put this goal here to the cold storage to, therefore mark it as “given up [for now]”. ;-)

Apparently, the undercurrent grew – now, we’ve got an offical GO! from the boss to dive into Ruby/Rails, tonight the PHP/CSS geek told me.

So, if that’s getting deeper, will this goal need to be considered achieved?

There’s an interesting undercurrent going on in our company – the Windows nerd (i.e. the official project manager!) may be about to leave, the PHP/CSS geek’s wanting me to teach him Rails, and now he suggested to dive into Rails as a team, maybe for a different customer, alongside our current work for the current company.

yesterday, I got into contact with some Rails doing company in Berlin, Germany. I told them, I’m in Ruby, but still fresh to Rails. Anyways, they asked for my CV.

we’ll see how things work out

found at least four interesting job offers related to Ruby on Rails. What needs to be done, now, is to take the time to sorts things out, current job vs. any of these

Some time the last few dozens of hours, somewhen amidst my fever dreams, I realized the current job’s payment’s more but bad. So the pondering on what to do about the situation followed me into the next one fever dream. The thought came up to demand more money for the qualified work I do, and the thought diminished.

However, when I woke up this time and had a quick glance into my mailbox, there was a kind-of job offer on Ruby/Rails from a city I pondered about to move there yet a while ago.

Let’s see what to do about that when I’ll be mended again.

Few days ago, I had a talk with someone I met in a Ruby/Rails workshop. We came across operating system security, and why he’d a Windows on his laptop. Apparently for a peace making offer, he mentioned, he’d a Ubuntu on that machine too. I told him, in my eyes Ubuntu doesn’t count, as I consider it to be a Windows users refugee camp. However, it turned out that guy has his own firm, active in the fields of Ruby/Rails, and despite my posture on Windows, the guy told me, there will be ap lace for me in his firm, if our current project manager manages to drive the project against a wall some time the next six months.

After a while of non-professional work, I just entered a “Google on Earth” place of work. Although the boss considers their business as cutting edge, however, they’re not: Web 2.0 is about AJAX, coloring websites is about joy in color, not information visualization/usability, a community you can foster by marrying a forum with a wiki with some sort of SMS alerts. Online business of now is of advertising and even call people for purposes of marketing, let people pay for their subscriptions; all the people. Online business is not about economy in the absence of scarcity or even The Long Tail. Accordingly, the project lead welcomed me by telling me Linux were SCO’s property – and other usual mess known by online forum trolls, not by serious real life people. The company uses a language because of that they’re used to it already instead of choosing the lang because it’d be a sharp knife in what’s about to get done. And of course, that language is – really cutting edge, as the boss claimed, even more than Ruby. – Oh? So, what language, then, I’d been not aware of? – Well, he explains, it’s called “PHP”.

So, okay, I signed for being part of that project, but when it is done, I want a Ruby/Rails job. I don’t want to loose touch to what’s really cutting edge, hence after the project’s done, they either offer me a Ruby/Rails position, or I see for a better job (although the current one’s social contribuions might be hard to top) – where I actually am supposed to master ruby on rails.

http://theEdgeCase.com

It is real. It happened!!

I’m working for VC, developing a community site. It’s a pure pleasure and money is good. I love this job!