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ffmikeon Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

I've been full-time remote (work from home, with a 3-year stint of work from RV) since 1995. It's always worked well for me, and I've been plenty productive enough to keep employers happy. Raised 4 kids in that time, too, including homeschooling. When it works, it works!

ffmikeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

  Location: Newburgh, Indiana, USA
  Remote: Yes (only - been a remote worker for > 20 years)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rails, Ruby, AWS, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-gunderloy-47bba4143/
  Email: MikeG1@larkfarm.com

Happy in individual contributor, tech lead, or EM roles, among others.

ffmikeon National Emergency Library

As an author with half a dozen or so titles in this archive, I'm happy to see this. It's not like I was making any money from books published a decade or more ago.

ffmikeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

  Location: Indiana USA
  Remote: Yes 
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby/Rails, AWS, engineering management
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-gunderloy-47bba4143/
  Email: MikeG1@larkfarm.com

I've done everything from lead developer to VPE to Engineering manager to architect. Working for a little medical company now, but our work is not on the critical path to pandemic fighting so we probably won't last.

ffmikeon Project Coldfeet

If you're intrigued by this, William Leary's book "Project COLDFEET: Secret Mission to a Soviet Ice Station" is definitely worth a read.

ffmikeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2019)

Location: Indiana

Remote: Yes. Have been remote-only for decades.

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Rails and a little of a lot of things. Architect, manager, writer, you name it.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-gunderloy-47bba4143/

Email: larkware@gmail.com

Looking for either an Engineering Manager position or a senior technical IC role with a growth path into management.

ffmikeon Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges

I'm a Girl Scout leader in the Midwest. Most of the leadership in this area (adult & youth) is at best skeptical about this initiative, and at worst openly hostile. Girls do not come to Scouting to learn about financial literacy and cybersecurity. They come to spend time with their friends, to be outdoors, to have parties, to do craft-y things. The cost of some of the new badges is also a great concern.

ffmikeon Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station

Anti anti-adblocker GreaseMonkey script for the Post: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/12363-wapo-escalation

ffmikeon Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

I passed this link to my dad, who actually spent a good chunk of his professional career working with fluorine compounds. His comment: "The guy is just chicken -- or ill-equipped for fluorine work."

ffmikeon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

Fulltime in Wine Country, CA - REMOTE acceptable

Labrador Omnimedia is looking for an iOS developer to help us upend the alcoholic beverage sales industry.

Existing application. Profitable company. Great team.

Details: http://www.labradorom.com/careers