[11:12] <head_victim> blahdeblah: I don't have a linkedin account, apparently it was from my Ubuntu wiki page.
[11:13] <blahdeblah> head_victim: weird
[11:14] <blahdeblah> I looked her up on the 'Tubes and she seemed legit - maybe she's just new at it and doesn't know how to pick them? ;-)
[11:14] <blahdeblah> Or maybe you & i both are better engineers than we think... ;-)
[11:14] <head_victim> elky: they did give me the vacancy notice to point at for the Sydney office as a systems engineer :/ Me, a systems engineer?
[11:15] <blahdeblah> head_victim: Care to share it/
[11:15] <blahdeblah> s/\//?/
[11:15] <head_victim> You can get to it via a google search so I assume it's public?
[11:16] <head_victim> http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/sydney/
[11:16] <head_victim> Bunch of them there 
[11:17] <jaddi27> you are thinking about working for google now?
[11:17] <head_victim> jaddi27: nah, was a cold email from a random.
[11:17] <jaddi27> oh, ok
[11:17] <head_victim> I'm no where near qualified for any of the roles listed as vacant
[11:18] <jaddi27> i might apply for an internship there next year
[11:18] <head_victim> Good luck :)
[11:18] <blahdeblah> If it wasn't in Sydney, i would even consider some of those roles... ;)
[11:18] <head_victim> blahdeblah: that's the other downside, I'm kind of tied to Brisbane for at least another 3 years now I've signed up to the Masters.
[11:19] <blahdeblah> I don't consider living here a downside... ;-)
[11:19] <head_victim> Happy to stay here longer though, no real thought of moving unless the money was REALLY good.
[11:20] <blahdeblah> head_victim: My downside: https://picasaweb.google.com/113106441554518621156/NewRaysFromAnAncientSun
[11:20] <head_victim> blahdeblah: oh yeah, that just sucks.
[11:21] <blahdeblah> :-D
[11:26] <head_victim> Bunch of home based jobs at Canonical going - https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp?org=CANONICAL&cws=1&act=sort&sortColumn=2&sortColumn=0
[11:27] <jaddi27> there is a software comp on at the moment
[11:27] <jaddi27> any ideas on something to make?
[11:31] <head_victim> Hmmm that engineering manager might be a laugh to apply for, probably not the reason they want people applying though.
[11:32] <head_victim> jaddi27: a program to amalgamate all the different cloud server to max out your free disk space and make it one large drive you can access with a single login. 
[11:32] <head_victim> :)
[11:32] <jaddi27> that would be useful
[11:32] <jaddi27> maybe i will get there
[11:33] <jaddi27> most likely not
[11:33] <head_victim> It was the first thing that popped into my head sorry
[11:33] <elky> blahdeblah, nah, that's how they roll. if you throw a handful of gravel at a cup, some is bound to go in.
[11:34] <elky> facebook is kinda the same. i seem to get more pings from them than from google these days.
[11:34] <head_victim> elky: looks like the sort of thing the person emailing everyone only gets paid for if they get candidates to interview or something.
[11:35] <head_victim> I'll send them a resume back with a "thanks but I'm not an engineer, if you get anything in team leadership/management roles that are 6 figures, please throw my resume in the hat".
[11:35] <head_victim> Will get me nowhere but at least I'll avoid more silly emails from that particular random.
[11:39] <elky> they do have bona fide project managers.
[11:39] <elky> so it's worth trying
[11:39] <head_victim> Indeed, but it would need to be mid 6 figures to want to make me move to Sydney, no point going backwards.
[11:40] <head_victim> Sorry, not mid 6, I meant 150k+
[11:40] <head_victim> That was a bit much even for me.
[11:40] <head_victim> And on that note, I'm heading to bed.
[11:40] <elky> Yeah, don't think they pay thaaaaaat well.
[11:40] <elky> they like to tack on the in-house benefits.
[11:40] <head_victim> yeah, in house benefits don't pay my mortgage :/
[11:41] <head_victim> But the benefits at my current employment do pay for uni, so sometimes, benefits can pay off.
[11:41] <elky> I've never responded to fb or google recruiters. i'm pretty sure both places would make me bitter and cynical within the year.
[11:54] <jaddi27> hopefully this connection stays up longer