Re: can anyone offer Lisp job?

> From: Adrian Kubala <adrian-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> you can invest your time in making yourself more employable

I've already been doing that year after year after year:
- Teaching myself new technologies.
- Taking classes for other new technologies.
- Working in various public-service efforts.
- Writing major useful software tool-packages and applications.
- Setting up Web-server-side demos of some of my software.
Despite being much more employable now than when I last had a job,
still nobody has offered to hire me or even interview me in more than
ten years. In the 4.5 years since I taught myself CGI programming and
started putting demos, I've been able to find only one person in the
local area (at Volt) to seriously look at one of my early demos in
early 2001 and nobody else in all the more than four years since then.
That guy at Volt really liked my demo, said it was fun, but he recruits
only for MicroSoft, which has not been hiring any time from the start
of 2001 to now, so he hasn't been able to refer me to any interview.
.

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