Hi Karl, Your story/post sound very similar to one that I would post. I am relatively new to this forum and have not posted much either.
I too am a 25+ year veteran of Pick/Multivalue/U2 sytems and find myself unemployed. I live in Canada and in the past 6 months or so, there has been 2 Pick related job posting. So I too am trying to abandon Pick as my wife and kids need cash to survive :-). Best wishes and congrats on your new job. Elio Karl Pearson wrote: > > I'm not sure if most, or any, of you actually know me, but here's what > amounts to my swan song. > > For the past 18+ years I've been a decent UV DBA. I took classes from Mark > Baldridge and later Joel Yates way back when to learn how to manually > repair corrupt files, and was proficient before uniVerse became so stable > that corrupt files happened infrequently and fixtool worked. > > But during that time, I've maintained a personal email and web server, > running Majordomo v1.94.5, etc. and have learned a bit about the LAMP > stack in so doing. > > I've been a layed-off DBA, for a small retail company, for the past 22 > months, consulting my previous employer because they got rid of me so they > could have salary cap to hire a different type of IT manager and move off > UV to Profit21, which failed after $250,000 lost. They are back on UV and > will stay now. > > I, however, have to move on because I've received the proverbial offer one > can't refuse ($5000US signing bonus and the option for 5000 shares of > company stock), plus no one in the 'PICK' world has offered me anything, > though there may be a few things still in the works, which will now go > quietly away. I will be working in the LAMP world now, making a living > doing my hobby, so to speak. (FYI: LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or > Perl, depending on who you listen to) > > I may hang around on the list for a bit, but will eventually have to > unsubscribe as my life moves farther and father away from a field I have > grown to respect and enjoy. Best wishes to all of you, and like others > before me, I'm sure I'll miss the group association you've provided, > though I'm mostly just a quiet observer. > > Thanks and I'll never forget this group of intelligent, insightful, > thought-provoking and often entertaining, professionals. > > --- > Karl Pearson > ka...@ourldsfamily.com > Owner/Administrator of the sites at > http://ourldsfamily.com > --- > "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; > to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." > --- > Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have > for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. > --Benjamin Franklin > --- > Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually > repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. > --- > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Saying-Goodbye...-tp28702652p31472264.html Sent from the U2 - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
