From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 15 13:12:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11573 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11566 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:12:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id NAA20097; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:12:14 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:12:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Alan Batie cc: MegaFred , Michael Slater , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Job Market for Sys Admins In-Reply-To: <19980115130154.05522@agora.rdrop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Alan Batie wrote: >On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 11:35:16AM -0800, Jan Koum wrote: >> C'mon, who would really want to work for Intel or MS, or even HP? >... >> As for contracting out? I don't think I'd want to leave Silicon Valley. > >Those of us who couldn't imagine living in the bay area, for one :-) >(it's bad enough here!) Hehe.. true. Rent is expensive. Traffic is horrible. To have fun on friday/saturday night you have to drive ~40 minutes to the city. Way hot during the summer. Earthquakes. Everyone has a cellular phone. And yet I love this place. :) > >-- >Alan Batie ______ It's not my fault! It's some guy >batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / named "General Protection"! >+1 503 452-0960 \ / --Ratbert >PGP FP: DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 \/ 7A 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 > >It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which >use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation. >