Well good luck Dragan (and family).

Hopefully the bureaucracies that you have to face now will show good sense in applying their rules.

JimN

>>"ex-work machine"!? Does this mean they are gone, and if so what does this mean to your residency?
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>Not too sorry for the machine, it was just a 200 MHz box, but the chair where I sat was great :).
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>As for the residency, as much as I know the law (which is rather labyrinthine here) I'm allowed to search for a job for a while. Since whatever progress I made in the green card process is now voided (it's tied to the sponsor, and the sponsor's out of business now), I'm not really tied to this country either. If a good offer comes around, I may end up pretty much anywhere on this continent.
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>>I presume that it is not good, residency-wise. Do you have any hankerin to go back 'home', or is this "HOME" now?
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>The plan is to retire and go home. I think I'd better fill the meantime with some useful work :).
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>>Do you have other opportunities in-the-mill? I've gotta believe that anyone here who has or knows of any openings is darned sure of your skill levels from your writings here. I wish I had or knew of something, but sadly I don't. VFP is a dying art in my neck of the woods (though maybe Mr. Levy will have siginficant impact on that, since it was gartner that created the present situation here).
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>Well, the first and main source is UT's "available positions" page, which brought me here in the first place, and I've already sent my resume to a few places. Don't really expect any answers in today's mail, the folks are still recovering from the long weekend.
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>>In any case, I hope that the gods will smile fondly on you
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>I really don't think they'd bother to prove their existence to a heathen (and if they prove it then they don't exist, see Hitchhiker's Guide Vol 1), but such a smile wouldn't hurt at all. Thanks for the kind words.