Alrighty. Up and ready to get cracking.

In brief, here's my gameplan for today:

10:00 - 12:00 -- Turbo job search mode. As time passes, I get less picky about where or what my work will be. Just something that pays enough to cover my rent and basic expenses.

A little lunch, and then, the afternoon....

13:00 - 18:00 (more or less) -- Hard code coding work on buildmeasite. Should be interesting.

Regarding a recent statement of mine. Obviously, I am not the only person to observe what may be an industry trend (If multiple people are observing a similar phenomenon in multiple companies in multiple geographical areas, does it qualify as a trend, perhaps?) As I put it, the trend is to throw away "productive" employees, while hiring "a new wave of marketing and sales drones".

The reason I link said article is because Yanthor's commentary, written at almost the same time as mine, about throws another much-needed persective on the issue. As always, balance is good. Somewhere in my stupid little soul, I know that salespeople are people too, annoying as they may be at times.

Still, I can't get it out of my mind is that what often appeared to be happening is that "they" wanted to replace the people who spent years of work creating something with a bunch of uninformed strangers who knew nothing except how to spout buzzwords and babble BS at other equally ignorant fools. And somehow, these morons^H^H^H^H^H^H nice people are more valuable to a company than those who actually had a clue?

If any sales people are reading this, I'm sorry. I have nothing against any specific person, or even sales people as such. Many sales people are really good people.

Still, I can't help but feel disgust, not at the salespeople (though it may often come out that way when I'm venting), but at the way companies treat their once-valued workforce.

Oh well. That's my rant clarification, re-rant, rant plus, or whatever it is.

I gotta get going. Peace to all.