codeboy works
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
-- Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
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I work at a cool place
called IntraACTIVE. We write cutting-edge
web software. It's located in
downtown DC, about 3 blocks from
the White House. It's a
typical start-up company, with little money but lots of energy.
The average age is something like 24. It's a little like
being in college, except you have to (somewhat) adhere to
deadlines, and you get paid to do the things you'd do as
class assignments in school. There's no dress code, no
daily schedules, and no red tape. Have you ever noticed
how much better you're able to think in jeans and a
t-shirt? I live about 3 miles from work, which takes 15 minutes by car, or 30 minutes by subway (including walking to and from the stations). I'm usually lazy and I drive. When the weather cools down, I'll probably start biking in to work (no showers in the building). Before working there, I worked at a bunch of other places. Systems I've written are all over the place, including a (failed) presidential campaign, NASA, Department of Defense, and Oracle I majored in Information and Decision Systems, and I do a lot of that at work. My specialties are system design and database design. Most of that is Oracle-based. I even have a slight bit of credibility. At age 18, I became the youngest person in the United States to receive certification in Novell Netware. I would've been the world's youngest, but some 16-year-old punk kid in Australia got certified. His parents worked for Novell though :) I also earned my Microsoft certification, at age 19. I wasn't even close to any records on that one: some 13-year-old in Illinois beat me to it. The funny thing about these certifications is that I use very little of the knowledge these days, since I'm not a systems administrator, but at least I can add a bunch of three-letter suffixes to my name. I've been known to have a resume. Last Modified 16 April 1999 |
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