>>>>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) :-}

Wow. I was fortunate enough to spend a summer working in London (1981, including the royal wedding) and still miss it regularly.