[18:31] <thafreak> So, ohio
[18:31] <paultag> so, thafreak
[18:31] <thafreak> I'm strongly considering getting into the recruiting game
[18:32]  * paultag ducks out
[18:32] <Unit193> paultag: You're not Ohio, you're somewhere else ;)
[18:32] <paultag> :)
[18:32] <thafreak> Exactly...everyone hates recruiters...
[18:32] <thafreak> so i want to do it better
[18:33] <paultag> thafreak: good luck, man
[18:33] <paultag> it's tough
[18:35] <thafreak> is anything not tough?
[18:36] <paultag> http://shortyawards.com/sunfoundation#/vote <- give us some love, please (some hot twitter action would be ♥ )
[18:36] <paultag> thafreak: that's true
[18:45] <paultag> thafreak: count it.
[18:49] <thafreak> count what?
[18:49] <paultag> thafreak: your vote, it was silly and awesome.
[18:49] <thafreak> gotcha ;)
[18:50] <paultag> thafreak: RE: recruiting: yeah, it's going to be super tough
[18:50] <paultag> the only way is if you can somehow become ohio's f/oss / linux-ey folks
[18:50] <paultag> place pythonic and c/c++ into f/oss spots
[18:50] <paultag> everything else is *fucked* right now
[18:51] <thafreak> well, all the recruiters contact me anyway anytime a linux job opens up
[18:51] <paultag> yeah, hum.
[18:52] <thafreak> I'm also thinking of training future linux admins...then recruiting them out
[18:52] <thafreak> once they pass my tests
[18:52] <paultag> sysadmin bootcamp of sorts
[18:52] <thafreak> word
[18:52] <thafreak> so i don't try to make money off them learning, since i will hopefully get a payday once I place them
[18:54] <thafreak> soooooo
[18:55] <thafreak> Another question for my technically advanced friends here
[18:55] <thafreak> would you prefer a recruiter like me, who has done many of the jobs you are being recruited for...
[18:56] <thafreak> or some one who just switched to recuiting IT after having recruited for say, accounting the year before (i.e. 0 technical knowledge)
[21:09] <canthus13> It'd be nice to have someone who knows what they're talking about. Last recruiter I talked to called me for an entry-level VoIP engineer position, which I was interested in.  The guy interviewing me wanted an SS7/VoIP guru with additional exchange experience. :/
[21:10] <dzho> yeah, doesn't sound very entry-level
[21:11] <dzho> "we want guru experience, but only want to pay entry-level wages/salary"
[21:11] <dzho> which sounds about right, overall
[21:13] <canthus13> Oh no. they weren't even wanting to pay that. the recruiter was just an idiot.
[21:14] <canthus13> I'm sure the company would have paid top dollar.
[21:14] <canthus13> the guy doing the actual interviewing was talking 80k.
[21:14] <canthus13> (Odd to talk money during the first interview, but I got the feeling they were in a pinch)
[21:20] <thafreak> yeah, it was kind of a rhetorical question anyway ;)
[21:20] <thafreak> I want to see client's places and how employees are treated before I recruit...
[21:21] <thafreak> I'm not a pimp
[21:27] <canthus13> good. I hate getting slapped around and hooked on crack. :/
[23:05] <thafreak> jackson: where you from?
[23:06] <thafreak> only a few places in ohio have armstrong...you wouldn't be up in the medina area would you?
[23:07] <canthus13> thafreak: About that pimping, though... Feel free to pimp me out to anywhere in NEO. :)