>>>>>>Hi gang,
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>>>>>>I received this email a few days ago. If anyone living in the vicinity of either New York City or London is looking for a .NET job, you might want to contact this guy, Jonathan Kehoe, jkehoe@lab49.com. Tell him that you heard about the job from me. I verified with him that these are full-time local positions (they have an office in NYC and an office in London).
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>>>>>>Here's his initial email to me:
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>>>>>>I work for Lab49 (http://www.lab49.com), we build advanced trading systems and are recognized as one of the leading high-end consultancies in the field. We do quite a bit of .NET development for some of the largest investment banks, hedge funds, and brokerage house in the world.
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>>>>>>You can check out a few sample projects we’ve done here: http://www.lab49.com/projects/longviewlive
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>>>>>>We are expanding our team and I wanted to reach out to you, given your reputation as an MVP, to see if you had any friends/colleagues/contacts interested in a new challenge.
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>>>>>>We are not headhunters or an agency.
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>>>>>Looks interesting - WPF/Silverlight/WCF etc. But "Life at Lab49 is good. We work hard and we play hard" - I don't think I can handle the 'play hard' bit any more (g)
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>>>>It usually translates as we pay SWFA but your at the "cutting" edge
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>>>I was only looking out of curiosity anyway. IAC, I don't think anyone could offer enough remuneration to lure me back to London (or NYC for that matter) :-}
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>>Yes. To be honest I regret moving back from Wiltshire to London but needed to be nearer my wifes family.
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>"needed to be nearer my wifes family." ?? Alien concept to me I'm afraid (g)

Sorry that was a typo that should have read "my wife needed to be nearer to her family"

South Wales is nice. I have an aunt in Brecon.