🚀 go-pugleaf

I've been looking for work for a little while now, and
never having had a job in the civilian sector, I was
somewhat flummoxed (sp?) about everything.  Anyway, as
I'd mentioned in a couple of other news.groups, I'd
be posting any good news here.  And I've got some
good news now, in a sense, so...................  :)

Obviously, I got a job.  It wasn't what I'd been looking
for, but I'm NOT complaining.  In fact, it really wasn't
even a job I applied for, but having heard about it, I
jumped to get it, and I got it.  I'm going to be teaching
a "C" language class at a prominent area tech school.
Sure, it's only part-time, and not enough to pay my bills
in and of itself, but hey, it's a start!  Now if I look
into one or two other part-time positions that I know
of, and ensure them that part-time is better than no
time, perhaps everything will work out well!  (I'm in
a position of HAVING to take a semester off for ...
personal reasons, one semester away from my BS in CS.)

Of course, I've gotta take the bad with the good, and there
is one slight bit of bad news in all of this.  From what
I've seen in all of my interviews and such to date, everyone
with whom I've interviewed is using messy-dos clones.
Since I'm a hard-core Apple(r) user, and since my university
is a hard-core Apple(r) platformed university, I've almost
NO experience with the clone world.  It appears as though
I'm going to have to get a clone of some sort in order to
do some of my work at home (like grading, preparations, etc)
IF I want to be able to do such things at home ... as well
as to force myself to actually LEARN all the in's and out's
of the clone world.  <sigh>  But I suppose that God (whoever's
version is correct, being primarily agnostic) really DOES
work in bizarre ways sometimes.  Just before Christmas, I
got a call from Sears (Inc., or whatever) and they were
seeking applications for credit cards.  Well, no means no,
but the girl on the other end had such a sweet voice that it
weakened my defenses and I said it was okay for them to try
to give me one (thinking that I wouldn't be approved).  Well
I was, and I just received the card in the mail a couple of
days ago, and if it seems that I really MAY need a small
clone of some sort, well, I've been provided with a means to
an end, if necessary...

It all works out in the end, I guess.

Jim