FILE: Job Offers (various) DATE: 2019-07-12 to 2019-10-23 ARCHIVED: 2021-03-15 (c) Copyright Brett Paufler # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # I retired a few years ago... call it five, as I am too lazy to look up the exact date. Towards the end of my working career (a phase, which in itself lasted many years), I prepared myself for a second career in Software Design... or something of the like. I like to believe I obtained some degree of proficiency in the craft, even if the skill-set never netted me a single penny. Now, I am a dabbler, at best. Anyway, I did post to some job boards, got a few automated responses (I don't think any were hand-crafted), and sent off my replies... never to hear from the vast (vast-vast) majority ever again. In fact, of the responses that follow (these are my responses), I do not recall ever getting a follow-up email from anyone. No need to wonder why. I was not a match. And the rest of the world is not as cavalier about their time as I tend to be about mine. --- Separates Email Responses {} Denotes Inline Notes, If Any [] Redactions # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # {2019-07-12} Howdy [Name], I'm looking for around 10hrs/week (or less, I'm OK with less), remote. If that doesn't scare you off, send me a text and I'll call you back, as it will likely be a month before I am looking at this email account again. [Phone Number] Brett {Thus, this project begins at the end of my job search. Previously, I had initiated many (at least, a few) exchanges, based upon Specific Job Postings. But all of these emails of mine are in response to what I presume are automated inquiries, in which there was little overlap between their needs and my desires.} - - - - - - - - - - - - - - {2019-08-05} [Name], I'm mostly retired. I'd be happy to work +/- 10 hours a week (more or less) remote. Most folks don't seem to be interested in that level of engagement, so forgive me if I don't bother to read the job listing. But if that's not a deal breaker, please let me know. Brett - - - - - - - - - - - - - - {2019-09-25} [Name], There's not much to go on. So, I'll say, sure, I'm interested. Please tell me more. Thanks, Brett - - - - - - - - - - - - - - {2019-09-25} I'm the wrong person for this as I do not know React or Docker. Thanks for thinking of me, though. Brett - - - - - - - - - - - - - - {2019-10-04} Any tool I use would choke. I'm going to assume I am not the droid you are looking for. {This email was like a Test Quiz in that (I presume) it was written entirely in some obscure code dialect. Sure, it could have been Straight C++. But if it was, it was of the x!{0010}+ variety, which I do not understand... nor do I aspire to understand. And if that's not clear, the entire email consisted of gobbledegook with nary a comment in sight.} - - - - - - - - - - - - - - {2019-11-07} Thanks for your interest. We are not a match. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # This next (which follows below) is not a job offer; but rather, an offer to help me improve my website. It's probably the only one of this kind that I ever responded to. Oh, I had plenty more in the file. But the files I'd kept were just raw spam with no written response by me: i.e. garbage. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # {2020-01-28} [Name]. As per your email "[Verbatim Text]." Please send. Brett {They did not send, which in itself is sort of odd.} # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # I don't know what I would do if I got a Job Offer, today. I probably would respond with the same level of detached disinterest. Yes, ten hours a week would be nice. But that would cut into my writing time. And I don't think anyone is interested, anyhow. So, why take the process seriously? Some time ago (likely right around 2019-11-07, the date of my last response, above), I deleted the one Job Listing Account and minimized the other to something along the lines of: Python Remote 10 Hours/Week I have not gotten an offer since... nor do I much care. Sure, some level of engagement would be grand... preferred, better, and/or an obvious lifestyle improvement. But then again, what I am likely to be offered would not (be an improvement to my current way of being). And that is pretty much that.