[olug] part-time job hunt suggestions

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 17:22:30 UTC 2005


craigslist has 2 tech related part time job openings...

On 11/17/05, Matt Anderson <manderso at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Howdy Folks --
>
> I've been on the OLUG list for just a couple of days, but I was
> hoping I might ask for some advice / suggestions regarding a job
> hunt.  Being that you're a list full of Linux people, my hope is that
> suggestions you might offer are in fact the kind that I'd be looking
> for.
>
> I've been in Omaha for a few weeks, and I'm looking for a part-time,
> somewhat flexible technology job of some kind (systems
> administration, software development, or web development, probably).
> I'm having some difficulty identifying local opportunities.
>
> Working at a university (or similar environment) sounds pretty good,
> and UNMC is very close to where I'm living, but they don't really
> have any positions posted and I haven't been able to identify anyone
> to talk to 'on the inside' about unadvertised positions (if there are
> any).  I've had AmeriTrade, ConAgra, and PayPal suggested to me, but
> they seem very big and very corporate, and have very little in the
> way of part time positions posted.
>
> I had CareerLink suggested to me recently as a good local resource,
> and it does indeed seem to have a lot more Omaha listings than say
> Monster or Jobs.com or the like.  I'll have to give it a very
> thorough sifting-through very soon.
>
> Me in a nutshell: I've been using Linux for about 10 years, and it's
> been my primary OS for most of that time.  I have three to four years
> of professional systems administration / support / webmastering
> experience (Linux / Windows), a Master's degree in Computer Science,
> and 4 years of medium-intense software development experience as a
> grad student / research assistant.  Some experience (about six
> months) with PHP/MySQL web app/site development.  I've been using an
> OS X PowerBook as my primary computer for about a year now (and
> absolutely love it).  My language of choice is Python, but I can work
> pretty well with C/C++, Perl, PHP, and Java too.
>
> My question to you all is this: do you guys (or gals) know of any
> openings in particular which might be appropriate?  Do you have any
> suggestions on where I should be looking (job agencies / portals, or
> specific government locations / schools / companies around town)?
> Any words of wisdom to share?  :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance for any assistance that you can provide.  I
> really appreciate it.
>
> --
>  Matt Anderson
>
>
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