Kinda Wish I Was in Austin...
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@thecreativeone91 all jobs are left eventually (sometimes by death.) Staying, leaving, switching, interviewing, probing... it is all varying degrees of the risk/reward calculation.
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I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
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A lot of eyes on this thread, definitely the hot topic of the day. I think that it is a good discussion. A lot of good points coming out for anyone considering and thinking about job opportunities. What makes a good value decision when looking at a job? What factors are influencing you to take or not take important risks? How do ambitious people approach these decisions?
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@Reid-Cooper said:
A lot of eyes on this thread, definitely the hot topic of the day. I think that it is a good discussion. A lot of good points coming out for anyone considering and thinking about job opportunities. What makes a good value decision when looking at a job? What factors are influencing you to take or not take important risks? How do ambitious people approach these decisions?
This is somewhat relevant: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/597383-career-assessment-when-to-hold-when-to-fold I haven't gotten to watch the whole thing yet due to it always breaking me though.
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@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
He's available, give him an interview!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
He's available, give him an interview!
The thing is that I have been trying to get us to open a Help Desk tech position for about a year.
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@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
He's available, give him an interview!
I won't move to FL. Ever.
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@ajstringham said:
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Not all of Florida is affected by hurricanes you know. Just like how not all of Texas is.
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I have to agree, though, I can't think of any state lower on my "to move to" list. I've not been to Miami and would like to visit and maybe I would even like it, but I find it unlikely. Maybe I would like the Keys, who knows. But I've been to every major northern city and every major metro on the west coast and I would likely take forty nine states before Florida based on the culture, weather, crime, etc. It is relatively cheap and has no state tax, though. But that doesn't offset the rest for me. The weather is seriously brutal.
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@ajstringham said:
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
As a Floridian, some parts are more prone to hurricanes than others. Tampa Bay has not been directly hit since 1912. In addition, you may be surprised to know that a hurricane has not made landfall in my state since 2005. (source: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/florida-hurricane-free-streak-luck-run-out-20140801)
Don't be afraid. To my reckoning, tornadoes are far worse...
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@Katie tornadoes are FAR worse and I've had them swing by the house just a few blocks from where AJ is. I'm a fan of bad weather so I like both states from that standpoint.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
He's available, give him an interview!
Is he not at Mcafee anymore?
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Actually where I am located was chosen for Kennedy Space Center because it has no history of Hurricanes. The Gulf Stream is very strong here and its starts to pull the current away from the shoreline. So the likelihood of a direct hit here is very minimal
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Is he not at Mcafee anymore?
He is but he has been looking for something more in the MSP vein.
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For those out of the loop: Isaac's Storm - The History of the Deadliest Hurricane Ever
Interesting book if you are unfamiliar with the history of Texas' Gulf Coast.
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Having done a lot of tornado and hurricane cleanup/rebuilding I can say most tornado's damage tend to be worse. Hurricanes weaken once on shore. Tornados of course don't. I've seen tornado's all over the country they can happen anywhere - even in the mountains where people don't think they will.
this one is a tornado from Alabama I helped with cleanup and re-building.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Having done a lot of tornado and hurricane cleanup/rebuilding I can say most tornado's damage tend to be worse. Hurricanes weaken once on shore. Tornados of course don't. I've seen tornado's all over the country they can happen anywhere - even in the mountains where people don't think they will.
It really depends on where the hurricane hits. Florida is so hurricane prone that everything is built to withstand it. The rest of the Southeast gets much worse damage from weaker storms. Category 3 and 4 hurricanes aren't uncommon to make landfall in FL. The damage is bad, but when a storm like that makes landfall in a gulf state that doessn't have a history of hurricanes its catastrophic.
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I've had a tornado start to form in my back yard in New York (near @Minion-Queen now.) One of my best friends in high school had a tornado pick up the barn across the street from his house and carry it over his house and drop it on the other side, missing his house completely (while the foreign exchange student from Spain that had never seen a tornado sat on the front porch watching the whole thing!!) and have had them come through my neighbourhood in Texas while we huddled in the bathroom with the kids. My dad has even sat through a movie in Indiana and suddenly started getting wet because a tornado had removed the roof!
When I used to work up in Rochester I lived through a direct hit from the epic microburst (linear tornado or white squall at sea) that was completely unprecedented and destroyed a straight line like a mile wide from Rochester to Syracuse in the 1990s. That was something.
