For the first time since 1998, I’m unemployed and looking for work! (by alaric)
I'm really quite happy about this. We have enough money to live off of for several months, so I can afford to look around for a good job, and take a long-wished-for break to relax and work on my projects.
I'm going to:
- Clear out a load of domestic TODOs that have been hanging over me. I've axed my "urgent" TODO list in just a few days.
- Sort out my workshop/home office: fixing up the nasty power cabling, finishing my workbench, putting up shelves so everything's not all over the floor, that sort of thing.
- Finish the home mainframe (no family should be without one!) off and get everything migrated to run on it.
- Put out the next release of Ugarit, with performance improvements, replicated storage, and an improved archive mode interface.
- Finish and publish a pencil-and-paper role playing game I started writing in 1994. Deary me, has it been that long? It's a wonder that I still have it, as it was on a FAT16 filesystem under MS-DOS when it was first written.
- Do some work on that MMORPG I designed in the late 1990s and never got around to implementing more than basic proofs-of-concept of. I don't think I'll have a fully working game any time soon, but I think that if I have some uninterrupted time, I could get it to a level that I can then hack on in odd bits of time thereafter. I've just found getting started daunting when I've only had the odd half-day here and there to work on it; other projects have offered more immediate rewards...
However, I am looking for a job, to start around the end of March / start of April - two months' break should be enough fun for me! So if you know of anything I (CV here) might be interested in, given that I'm based in Gloucester (UK), please do drop me a message!
Tue 26th Jan 2016 3:16 pm 
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By Martin Ferguson, Wed 16th Mar 2016 @ 4:31 pm
Afternoon Alaric,
I hope you are well and enjoying your break from work - working on your MMORPG.
I have tried a few times through more common channels to reach out regarding roles I am working that I feel you would be a strong fit for and that would engage yourself. I am hopeful through reaching out via your website I will have more success.
I am working on positions working closely with the emerging technologies - big data - machine learning - cloud development and would welcome the chance to discuss these with you. With April edging ever closer I hope you are open to a talk.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards, Martin