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PanelAJ O\u2019Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)
Discussion
\xa001:02 - Panelist employment backgrounds04:34 - Programming job marketNetworking
06:31 - How to get a job doing what you likeBetterServers Skunkworks project
09:36 - Qualifications11:40 - How you find jobsBeing active in online and offline communities Mailing list advertisement Recruiters and job boards
15:51 - Resumes19:27 - Interviews\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Pairing
24:50 - Company fit095 RR People and Team Dynamics with Joe O\u2019Brien Contract to hire work
30:47 - What makes somewhere a good place to work?Autonomy
40:32 - FreelancingThe Ruby Freelancers Show
PicksPsych Season 7 (AJ) The Fradio - MediaBox (AJ) Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard (Jamison) 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal by Dan Miller (Chuck) No More Mondays: Fire Yourself -- and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work by Dan Miller (Chuck) 48 Days Podcast (Chuck) From the Dust (AJ)
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\xa0Transcript[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at\xa0 Bluebox.net.][This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]CHUCK:\xa0 Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 51 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O\u2019Neal.AJ:\xa0 Yo! Yo! Yo! Chuck, did you realize that this is like our anniversary?CHUCK:\xa0 Our anniversary was in January actually. Though, we missed a handful of episodes. Otherwise, it would be. Yeah.AJ:\xa0 Yeah, whatever. I don\u2019t know whether or not I'm alive. I don\u2019t know when our anniversary is. I don\u2019t know nothing.CHUCK:\xa0 [Laughs] We also have Jamison Dance.JAMISON:\xa0 Hey guys!CHUCK:\xa0 I'm Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And this week, we\u2019re going to be talking about finding a job.I'm a little curious. AJ, you're freelance now, aren\u2019t you?AJ:\xa0 Yeah, kind of.CHUCK:\xa0 Kind of.AJ:\xa0 Mostly, I'm just working on projects that I've been wanting to work on. I haven't actually sought out a lot of work.CHUCK:\xa0 Oh, okay. And Jamison is empris -- or employed.JAMISON:\xa0 [Laughs] Or happily employed.CHUCK:\xa0 I'm freelance as well, been a freelance for a few years now. So, and I know that Tim went freelance. I don\u2019t know if that stuck or not. It sounded like it has, at least, until he decides he wants to be somewhere else.JAMISON:\xa0 Merrick and Joe are both employed though.CHUCK:\xa0 Yeah. They both work at Domo.JAMISON:\xa0 They're like half and half, I guess, now.CHUCK:\xa0 So, how many places have you guys worked at as programmers?AJ:\xa0 I just worked at BYU and SpotterRF.JAMISON:\xa0 I have worked at four places. But one of them, I did PHP and Drupal. I don\u2019t know if I could count that as a programmer then.CHUCK:\xa0 [Laughs] You plucked out the bad memories.JAMISON:\xa0 Yeah. Well, it was great for the time. It was [inaudible].CHUCK:\xa0 Yeah. I did IT at BYU. I didn\u2019t ever actually work for them as a programmer. And then, I ran tech support at Mozy and I did programming there but it wasn\u2019t part of my job description. My job description was to run the Tech Support Department. So, people would call in with problems with Mozy and we would help fix them. But we needed an Issue Management System, our ticketing system, whatever you want to call it. And we also needed some kind of knowledge base. And the company really didn\u2019t want to spring for it. So, I wound up building it.AJ:\xa0 Cool! [Chuckles]CHUCK:\xa0 And that\u2019s kind of how I made the transition into programming because after working on that for a while,

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