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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCelebrate 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.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)bicentennial_baby
(37,153 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)rurallib
(62,342 posts)niyad
(112,424 posts)barbtries
(28,702 posts)i hope you love it, happy for you!
chemp
(730 posts)Now please find me one!
8 months now. Finally got an interview! Is the tide turning?
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)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)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.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Congrats! Good for you!
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)Hopefully I'll be saying the same very soon.
BTW, K & R!
PEACE!
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)So happy for you.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Glad to hear something to keep my good mood going!
MsFlorida
(488 posts)I've been out a little over a year too, thanks for giving me hope!!!
Tikki
(14,537 posts)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)Congratulations! Isn't that feeling of relief wonderful?!
Super happy for you!
steve2470
(37,456 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)stopbush
(24,376 posts)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)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"!
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Good luck with the new position.
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)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.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)I'm thrilled for you!
Have a blast!
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,653 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,404 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)mrs_p
(3,012 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)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)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)then this last week my phone has been blowing up. Here's hopin' that luck will rub off, buddy.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)My interview seemed to go quite smoothly. I am hoping now to hear back from them soon, with positive news!
lame54
(35,130 posts)and be excellent to each other
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)wishing you every success
cordelia
(2,174 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)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" . 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)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.
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)and I hope everyone else that is looking is as successful.
a2liberal
(1,524 posts)dburner1
(12 posts)Congratulations! Best of luck in the days ahead.
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)and GOOD LUCK!
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)well done!!!
lovelyrita
(241 posts)I was laid off about a month ago and know how hard it is to find something decent.
Stinky The Clown
(67,669 posts)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)it would be yours! It will feel mighty good to get rid of the riffraff!! Good for ALL of us!!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)irisblue
(32,828 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)man4allcats
(4,026 posts)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)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.
handmade34
(22,755 posts)good work! well done!
Progression
(30 posts)Hopefully, the rest of the folks looking for work will also be able to find their job!
NikolaC
(1,276 posts)Lebam in LA
(1,344 posts)Great news! Hope everyone else looking is as successful in landing the job of their dreams
Congratulations!
Johnny Noshoes
(1,977 posts)I love hearing this and its something you like - BONUS baby!
tledford
(917 posts)jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)TheKentuckian
(24,934 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)This is truly good news!
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)meti57b
(3,584 posts)stockholmer
(3,751 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)ol' Walter: "Welcome t' WalMart, now git yer shit 'n' GO!"
area51
(11,868 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)IIRC, MUMPS powers the VA's EMR?
Great stuff!
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Congrats & cheers!!!!
I'm sure the girls will get some celebratory treats !
AllyCat
(16,031 posts)a long time looking. Glad to hear you are one of them!
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)I know this was something much needed.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)dah dah dah dah da da da da