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HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 01:52 PM Feb 2012

Celebrate with me: after a year of searching, I have a job!

... working with a product I really enjoy. My new job is as an M applications programmer (Yes, M/MUMPS still exists: s %MeEmployed = 1 w "Woohoo!" ) with a good, solid company. It will be nice working close to the health care industry again.

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Celebrate with me: after a year of searching, I have a job! (Original Post) HillWilliam Feb 2012 OP
That's great! MineralMan Feb 2012 #1
AWESOME! bicentennial_baby Feb 2012 #2
Contrats! rustydog Feb 2012 #3
way to go, way to go, way to go! rurallib Feb 2012 #4
congrats!! nice to hear good news!! niyad Feb 2012 #5
mazeltov barbtries Feb 2012 #6
Fantastic! chemp Feb 2012 #7
I think it's starting to turn HillWilliam Feb 2012 #29
I think it is! Johnny Noshoes Feb 2012 #56
Woot! HappyMe Feb 2012 #8
GREAT News, HillWilliam! MarianJack Feb 2012 #9
Congratulations! yellerpup Feb 2012 #10
Exceptional news! Rowdyboy Feb 2012 #11
HOORAY!!!!! MsFlorida Feb 2012 #12
YAY.... Tikki Feb 2012 #13
that is really fantastic! renate Feb 2012 #14
Congrats !!!!!!! nt steve2470 Feb 2012 #15
Congratulations! joeybee12 Feb 2012 #16
.. Liberal_in_LA Feb 2012 #17
Congrats! Into my 13th month of unemployment here. stopbush Feb 2012 #18
May you be next, stopbush! Hope 13 is your lucky number!! lastlib Feb 2012 #54
MUMPS is still hanging in there ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2012 #19
Heh, despite my efforts to deny its existence HillWilliam Feb 2012 #61
Congratulations!! Sanity Claws Feb 2012 #20
Congrats, my dear HillWilliam! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #21
Congratulations, HillWilliam. Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #22
Awesome, congrats! Ohio Joe Feb 2012 #23
Congrats!! That's wonderful!!! one_voice Feb 2012 #24
Congratulations! DavidDvorkin Feb 2012 #25
Good on ya! n/t Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #26
So happy for you! mrs_p Feb 2012 #27
Wow, Mumps. Hadnt heard that one for a long time. Congrats! stevenleser Feb 2012 #28
I thought I'd left it long behind HillWilliam Feb 2012 #64
Congratulations! The Genealogist Feb 2012 #30
I've heard nothing since about the first of November HillWilliam Feb 2012 #65
Thanks! The Genealogist Feb 2012 #73
Party on dudes... lame54 Feb 2012 #31
CONGRATS!!!! :-) n/t arthritisR_US Feb 2012 #32
Brilliant - many congrats Smilo Feb 2012 #33
Excellent news! Congratulations. cordelia Feb 2012 #34
MUMPS? Healthcare oriented? Congrats!!! Scuba Feb 2012 #35
You've actually heard of MUMPS? Hehe HillWilliam Feb 2012 #66
I am so happy for you! YOU DID IT! Must've been hard to look so long w/o results, but YOU DID IT! Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #36
Congratulations Worried senior Feb 2012 #37
congrats! (n/t) a2liberal Feb 2012 #38
OldNavy dburner1 Feb 2012 #39
Oh, how wonderful. Congratulations Remember Me Feb 2012 #40
Congratulations! sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #41
Congratulations! PA Democrat Feb 2012 #42
Go you! sibelian Feb 2012 #43
Congratulations! lovelyrita Feb 2012 #44
Your story is becoming more common than stories about losing jobs Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #45
If I could "like" any post on DU, ol' buddy HillWilliam Feb 2012 #59
Congradulations. jwirr Feb 2012 #46
congrats to you! n/t RainDog Feb 2012 #47
congrats! irisblue Feb 2012 #48
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!! I feel your joy all the way to Alaska. :) roguevalley Feb 2012 #49
I'm happy for you! man4allcats Feb 2012 #50
Dude, I am so sorry to hear that, because... Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #51
Congtatulation!! handmade34 Feb 2012 #52
Congrats! Progression Feb 2012 #53
Congratulations!! NikolaC Feb 2012 #55
Congratulations!!! Lebam in LA Feb 2012 #57
FANTASTIC Johnny Noshoes Feb 2012 #58
Bravo! eom tledford Feb 2012 #60
Break a leg !!! jerseyjack Feb 2012 #62
Grats bro! I know what it like to finally get that ticket. TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #63
Congrats on the new job! n/t greytdemocrat Feb 2012 #67
Congratulations! n/t gkhouston Feb 2012 #68
Best of luck to you! KansDem Feb 2012 #69
congratulations. nt DesertFlower Feb 2012 #70
extremely cool!!! meti57b Feb 2012 #71
congrats! and so glad to hear it is not as a Walmart drone stockholmer Feb 2012 #72
Talk about bad placement, that would be me as HillWilliam Feb 2012 #82
Congratulations! area51 Feb 2012 #74
Congratulations!!! MannyGoldstein Feb 2012 #75
w00t !! Duppers Feb 2012 #76
Fantastic! Hearing this more and more...people finding jobs after AllyCat Feb 2012 #77
Yay!!!! tavalon Feb 2012 #78
Good for you. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #79
celebrate good times come on lovemydog Feb 2012 #80
Good for you and congrats.... a kennedy Feb 2012 #81
a big CONGRATS!!! n/t hue Feb 2012 #83

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
29. I think it's starting to turn
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 02:58 PM
Feb 2012

Through December and January I was starting to feel "old and in the way". This week recruiters have been blowing my phone up and I've had a flurry of face-to-face interviews. I've had no less than three solid offers, but none so far for this particular job -- it was the one I was really hoping to get but thought I had slim to no chance at. (And I was thinking Slim just left the county...)

It felt really weird making calls to the other prospective employers and saying, "Thank you. I'm grateful for your offer, but I have the job I wanted."

I'm a darned good PHP/JavaScript programmer, but I've put a lot of effort into learning the Cache DBMS. I come from a multivalue/multirelational database background, so it was a pretty easy transition. (CacheBasic and Cache MVBasic both have the readability of Basic and the power of a truly array-capable language like PHP.) I did some MUMPS coding about 20 years ago and haven't bothered much with it since. I really didn't want to leave the last five years' effort into relearning Cache behind.

So while my phone has been ringing off the hook this week for PHP positions, I have only had two interviews for a Cache position in the last year. I really didn't think I was going to get the job because I was up against another dude who eats/sleeps/breathes M.

Here's hoping my good fortune will rub off on you, buddy.

Johnny Noshoes

(1,977 posts)
56. I think it is!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:51 PM
Feb 2012

It has been 5 and half months for me and I have an interview this coming Tuesday. I sent them my cover letter and resume via email and heard back from them in TWO HOURS. That has got to mean something.

Tikki

(14,537 posts)
13. YAY....
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 02:04 PM
Feb 2012

And the rule is: spend some of your first paycheck on
something you love to do or to pamper yourself.


Congratulations

Tikki

renate

(13,776 posts)
14. that is really fantastic!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 02:06 PM
Feb 2012

Congratulations! Isn't that feeling of relief wonderful?!

Super happy for you!

stopbush

(24,376 posts)
18. Congrats! Into my 13th month of unemployment here.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 02:14 PM
Feb 2012

And breathing a sigh of relief that UI benefits are going to be extended.

Had an interview Monday via Skype, the first interview I've had since November. That interview will not lead to a job, but at least some interest was shown.

lastlib

(22,978 posts)
54. May you be next, stopbush! Hope 13 is your lucky number!!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:36 PM
Feb 2012

GOOD LUCK to you!!! Hope you find a great job with a good company REAL SOON!!!






(and may I be soon behind you! )
Unemployment "inhales forcefully"!

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
61. Heh, despite my efforts to deny its existence
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:09 PM
Feb 2012

A great bunch of M/MUMPS is being converted over to COS (M + objects/OOP). The part I can get my teeth into is the conversion part. Getting to do web projects with Zen and CSP is icing on the cake. Insofar as picking M back up (I haven't touched it much in the last 20 years [and if I did, I did washed my hands thoroughly afterward]), accounts payable software is accounts payable software. Luckily, everyone's A/P does pretty-much the same things; no new science there for me.

M is a language of only about 40 words, but trust on this, you can write poetry in it. (Even if nobody can read it LOL)

Thanks for the good wishes. It will be a tough first year but a good deal of fun for me thereafter.

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
64. I thought I'd left it long behind
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:44 PM
Feb 2012

apparently there's still a huge footprint out there. InterSystems still has a humongous chunk of the hospital systems (if not nearly all), plus the VA, plus players like the Amazon cloud, MSN, IBM, Syngenta and a lot more huge companies. Even the Grammys apparently did a lot of the accounting on InterSystems Cache.

Huh, says I to that. I had no idea until yesterday about that one. The company I'll be going to work for is one of the biggest in healthcare lab/lab billing; little chance of it disappearing out from under me. (I have a talent, it seems, for locating companies that are dying then going to work for them until they actually DO die; thus I have lived in 11 states and visited 40+. Been there, done that, and the t-shirt is thin and ratty!) It's a great relief to have finally broken that streak.

I did order an M programming guide. I've got a personal-sized copy of Cache handy (I'm developing an eco-farm/poor farmer resource management suite together, but using MVBasic and decidedly, pointedly not MUMPS, heh). Guess I'll be doing exercises for the next month brushing back up.

Like a bicycle..

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
30. Congratulations!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:26 PM
Feb 2012

I am so happy for you! I am going in for a follow-up interview for an office position this afternoon. This is the closest I have been to a job in a year and a half.

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
65. I've heard nothing since about the first of November
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:45 PM
Feb 2012

then this last week my phone has been blowing up. Here's hopin' that luck will rub off, buddy.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
73. Thanks!
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:12 AM
Feb 2012

My interview seemed to go quite smoothly. I am hoping now to hear back from them soon, with positive news!

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
66. You've actually heard of MUMPS? Hehe
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:54 PM
Feb 2012

Yes, indeed, it's in the healthcare industry. Part of the job later on will be to graduate them from M to COS (think, "object MUMPS&quot . I did lobby for MVBasic (hardly Basic; think: the legibility of Basic with string slicing/dicing like PHP, and sparse arrays like MUMPS), but I may be training their current web folks to use that later.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
36. I am so happy for you! YOU DID IT! Must've been hard to look so long w/o results, but YOU DID IT!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 04:38 PM
Feb 2012
YOU ARE HEREBY CROWNED KING OF THE DAY!

I can only imagine how depressing it must've been to have to look for so long. I'm SO happy, though, a good job finally came through.

Now, here's hoping the rest of the unemployed can gradually find jobs, too.

Stinky The Clown

(67,669 posts)
45. Your story is becoming more common than stories about losing jobs
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 05:38 PM
Feb 2012

Which makes the repubicans nervous.

Which makes the silliness about birth control a hot issue.

Which makes the right social values nuts valuable to the repubicans

Which makes the knuckle dragging/mouth breathing segment of the population more frothy than normal

Which still won't be enough to help them out.

Which means 2012 will be another losing year for them.

Which means they might even lose Congress again.

Which means anyone opposed to the repubicans ought to be feeling bouyed.

Which means GOOD FOR YOU!!!

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
59. If I could "like" any post on DU, ol' buddy
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:03 PM
Feb 2012

it would be yours! It will feel mighty good to get rid of the riffraff!! Good for ALL of us!!

man4allcats

(4,026 posts)
50. I'm happy for you!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 05:56 PM
Feb 2012

Been out a year myself. Just doing part-time stuff right now unrelated to my degree and professional experience. Nevertheless, good luck in your new position and best wishes to you!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
51. Dude, I am so sorry to hear that, because...
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:08 PM
Feb 2012
THE BEER IS ON YOU!




See if you can get a couple week's advance, I've seen some of these lushes pound down the brew.






Good news, I hope we hear more like this.

Lebam in LA

(1,344 posts)
57. Congratulations!!!
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:52 PM
Feb 2012

Great news! Hope everyone else looking is as successful in landing the job of their dreams

Congratulations!

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
82. Talk about bad placement, that would be me as
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:31 AM
Feb 2012

ol' Walter: "Welcome t' WalMart, now git yer shit 'n' GO!"

AllyCat

(16,031 posts)
77. Fantastic! Hearing this more and more...people finding jobs after
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 03:21 AM
Feb 2012

a long time looking. Glad to hear you are one of them!

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