Christmas is over, 2010 is here, and it's time to move my jobsearch forward.

As I've written previously a few times, I'm giving up on trying to get 
hired as a programmer. (It's not like I can go work for Google writing 
in Haskell...) Instead, I'm going to try to get hired as a system 
administrator. At least that way I can say "hey, I've been doing this 
exact job for the last 7 years continuously" rather than "well, I could 
_probably_ learn this..."

The first task, then, is to adjust my CV. I wrote it to try to 
demonstrate what an awesome programmer I am; most of it is completely 
irrelevant if I'm not trying to be a programmer any more. So in summary, 
I've just spent an hour working on my CV, and it's now about half the 
length it was before. o_O

The trouble is, when I'm trying to be a programmer, I can say "hey, 
dude! I know Pascal, Prolog, Java, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Tcl, Haskell, 
Eiffel, pick me! Pick me! I've learned all about data compression, 
cryptography and cryptanalysis, digital signal processing, database 
theory, logic design, error-correcting codes, binary data 
representation, I know stuff about stuff! Pick me!!"

...all of which has absolutely nothing to do with just keeping a few 
servers running. So having just deleted all that stuff off my CV, it 
looks a tad bare now. :-/

I suppose now I need to come up with a bunch of keywords to fill my CV 
with. Stuff like "Active Directory" and "BackupExec" and "Oracle" and 
"Ethernet". But then my CV ends up just being a soup of keywords. 
Besides, if I just sit there and spew fourth a long list of technical 
terms, that just proves that I'm good at looking up technobabble. The 
most likely response is going to be "yeah? prove it."

Of course, assuming I ever get my CV sorted out, the next task is to 
find somewhere to stick it... but I'll worry about that when I get to 
it. I have at least got one reference to offer people now...

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