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I concur; they're definitely very good, knowledgeable, and honest people to work with... some of the best I've met.

Thanks, and yep, still in the market. There's plenty of things out there its just a matter of finding something that's for me and more than a few month contract through a recruiter. Looking for a new job is in itself a full time job but this downtime has helped get some small business plans and projects together so its not all that bad.

Square is cool; I use it and have no trouble or complaints and the fees are reasonable at 2.75% for swipes and 3.5% for manual entries. Shortly I'll be switching over to Intuit as they offer everything I need in terms of handling all the accounting and electronic transactions in one place. I haven't had any trouble with PayPal but there are many, many others that've had funds locked for months at a time, been conned out of cash because of a dispute, etc.

If I schedule a track day and it ends up being rainy.. I'd still go; its a good excercise in throttle and brake control and being smooth regardless of which class you run. And as STT-Guy Monte used to say.. it builds chest hair

Thanks everyone, had a couple of interviews this week for non-IT stuff and more going on next week. There's jobs out there, no doubt, I just need to find a career.

Aw man, I wanted to head up Mon/Tue for som fun but as I say.. pain follows rain.

Thanks for the responses so far everyone. No degree yet; I'm in my junior year at OSU. School is tough for me and the expense is staggering but I'm plugging away. Thanks for the lead flygirl; that position needs experience with a education/security protcol I've never worked with before. I'll keep looking at that board though for other stuff to pop up.

Many of you guys know I have a few jobs. A week ago I lost the big one.

I worked as one of the two IT administrators for an architecture company in downtown Columbus; a company of ~170 people in eight regional offices. About 5 months ago I and a few of my colleagues had our hours cut nearly in half. Then a week ago I was brought into a conference room and was told the company could no longer afford to keep me at all.

Being nearly into my mid-20s this was my first 'big boy' job and my first time being laid off. I was always busy with a continuous long list of tasks and had such a large part in operations that my colleagues were in utter shock when they learned I was let go and are now paralytically worried about loosing their own jobs. I feel bad for my IT colleague who now has an enormous amount of work to deal with alone. Oh well. Right now I work weekends at the Abercrombie & Fitch corporate campus providing IT support for the associates and I work on small business electronics and photography projects as usual. It would be awesome if those jobs paid the bills since I enjoy them quite a bit.

If anyone here has any opportunities I'm looking for a M-F position here in Columbus for another IT support or administration position. I have a heavy concentration in supporting users utilizing the general stuff like Windows and Office but also more specific design products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Photoshop, Premiere, and tons of other stuff. On the server side I've spent nearly 4 years with active directory, IIS, Exchange, and some of the usual MySQL, PHP, HTML, and automation scripting stuff. I'm open for chaning to a motorcycle-related career and I have a few friends who would vouch for what I would do to get there ; ) At any rate I'm a little overwhelmed with everything still and my focus is more cloudy than usual so hopefully a resume will give more details on what I can do; feel free to ask for one.

Thanks for reading.

Had a great time! I got slower as the day went on... which I never heard of before.. but it was still a great time as always. It looked like Kyle took some good photos so I'm looking forward to getting those and updating my Facebook with pics newer than the 2009 season, haha.

I'll be there Tuesday in intermediate group! I haven't had photos taken of me in 3 years... will there be a photog? If not I'll at least try my best to get some of you guys and post them up on the SmugMug.

Oy, the front part looks like a Pokemon

I managed to swing by Tuesday afternoon between jobs to get photos in T1! Hopefully I'll be available in an official capacity all day in the upcoming PTR events.

Novice

Intermediate

Advanced

I apologize in advance if you managed to dodge the camera; you were probably zoomin' by too fast!

I just started another job.. which is on the weekends

Wait, holy crap, this is sweet! This is exactly what I want; a local, low pressure racing organization to have fun in. Because.. let's face it.. I have 3 jobs and need to be at all of them

Yep, he was surprisingly cool about it considering his Aprilia only had 55 miles on it

Had a fantastic time! The turnout was great, I met a lot of really cool people, and the weather turned out to be nice. Can't wait for next year!

..I'll just leave this here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6VmrxFBCCM

Sweet! In that case I'll try to make both days. This is gonna be awesome!

Well.. my 250 needs 26 of its 27HP to just to maintain 70MPH on the highway anyways but it does feel even slower in the heat. My car is also frustratingly slower than usual, making me think for a minute something was wrong with it :/

Sounds like fun! I'll be there for practice Saturday.. but I don't have a license to race on Sunday

Appreciation for admins? Such a thing exists? ..I'll be there!

Yeah, It was hard to get everyone in the I group; I rode every intermediate session yesterday so I only photoed the second half of one of our afternoon sessions. A lot of riders were pitting early throughout the day so I probably missed a few others as well.

Definitely a good time as always! It was great seeing friends again and meeting some new folks and hanging out with Larry Pegram and his dad for a little while.

I was there on the 12th and was able to ungear and run out to T1 to take some photos in the afternoon: Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Signed up for Tuesday intermediate. I'll bring an EZ-Up to share if anyone needs shade!

Yes, thanks everyone! Definitely had a good time trying to remember how to ride a bike haha and meeting some cool people. I'll be taking the Yami and some cones out to the parking lot at the office this summer to try out the exercises we did today for more practice. Good times were definitely had!

Best weekend of the year! I'll be there looking legit with my enormous camera lens arrangement on the 8th-10th and potentially at the track day on the 7th as well.

My company knows this is more important to me than whatever 60 million dollar project we're working on so no one will even think about asking me to be in the office, haha.