I'm glad you finally found something Renoir. Isn't it amazing that only 2 years ago there were programming jobs filling up numerous pages in the newspaper! Back then, I was offered every job I applied for, and nowadays there is not a single job available and when there is one, they receive thousands of applications!

>James,
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>I'm surprised you didn't SET BLATENT MARKETING ON and link us to your books. What are they? BTW, I was unemployed all last year and it sucked big time. I had to swing a hammer and do home repair until I finally landed a job about 4 months ago. Basically sold everything we had and started over. Gave me some perspective, but it still sucked.
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>Renoir
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>>At least somebody responded!
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>>Going independent was a huge mistake. I got beat up really bad. Pretty much lost everything. I just finished writing my second novel. I'm peddling it now. I was a journalist in New York and Philadelphia before I fell into computers. The job market is so horrible I'm thinking about a career change. Don't know what to do at this point. I've been unemployed since April when the company I worked for laid-off 300 people. Life kind of sucks sometimes. But I do have one hell of a good book!
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>>Jim
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>>>Uh... okay. Literature/poetry was never my best subject, but this message did prompt me to look up some of your past posts. I remember speaking with you at the 2001 DevCon. You had just gone independent, I think. How is that working out? Also, I missed your discussion regarding vaccinations/autism the first time around. How is you son doing now?
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>>>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>>>White washing their world
>>>>Through toil and trouble
>>>>Leave no streaks and avoid discord
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>>>>Spinning yarns of social détente
>>>>Whisk away the dust and dirt
>>>>Keep the peace through sanitary language
>>>>Always careful nobody gets hurt
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>>>>Rub-a-dub-dub and away they scrub
>>>>Their world is plain vanilla
>>>>Disparaging words are never heard
>>>>Each one is so carefully censured
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>>>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>>>Always scrubbing but never thinking
>>>>A white-washed world can never redress
>>>>The very conflicts they are busy cleaning.
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>>>>James M. Weil