Whenever I look down at the ground racing below me, I\u2019d be well advised to remember that I only got this job in the first place because some recruiter ended up getting my number mixed up with some other candidate and calling me on accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was heading south on the outer drive and Res (\u201cThey Say Vision\u201d) came up on the radio. Steve used to always play a Robbie Rivera mix of that track and he\u2019d just gone off to prison for dealing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d just warned him: Dude. You have got to get out of the game because you have a gigantic neon sign over your head that says \u201cArrest me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be he said he\u2019s \u201cgot this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He wasn\u2019t going to slip up this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was cold outside but it was sunny and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I shook my head and I thought \u201cThank god you\u2019re not on that horrible fucking drug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was on US-41, right next to Soldier Field. Where I\u2019m still banned for life. The phone rang. It was a call from Tina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tina sounded a little manic. She said she was airjamming a pretend guitar in her office to Metallica\u2019s \u201cMaster of Puppets\u201d while she looked for a Puppet Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was ostensibly leaving for Texas on vacation that morning, but I had despaired at the thought of returning and I honestly had half a mind not to. I wasn\u2019t sure but I had some time to think about it and perhaps begrudgingly make the right choice to turn those wheels back north towards February, the looming cloud of my boss\u2019s halotosis, and an alarm clock set for 5:15am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wasn\u2019t actively looking for another job. I didn\u2019t even have a resume posted anywhere. But I had a feeling that I was about to say adios to the doublemint twins and the stock exchange after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before I was doing stadiums or chatrooms, I was staring at > 250,000 transactions per second<\/em> and porting all the stuff that starts and stops the CBOE every day from Linux to Solaris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did what I was hired for and stayed until it was completed. The migration and the move from Chicago to New York was successful. They had offered me permanent work and I didn\u2019t want it. I loved it there but I have sleep apnea like a motherfucker and it was all I could do to show up on time every day and finish the scope of work I\u2019d promised to and crawl across the finish line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWell, I\u2019m really beginner to intermediate with that and I only learned it under duress. I was kind of forced to learn it so how about a Puppet Slave instead?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s closer than I\u2019ve gotten all day!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before that phone call was over, she was like \u201cOK fuck that other guy, we\u2019re submitting you instead!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll this time I\u2019ve spent looking for a Puppet Master, and I should have been looking for a Puppet Slave\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tina ended up placing me at eBay and Cisco. I literally owe everything else \u2026 from that point forward \u2026 to a recruiter calling me on \u201caccident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever I look down at the ground racing below me, I\u2019d be well advised to remember that I only got this job in the first place because some recruiter ended up getting my number mixed up with some other candidate and calling me on accident. I was heading south on the outer drive and Res […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14814,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}