Re-working the resume in LaTeX both makes me wonder why I keep my resume in LaTeX and reminds me why I keep my resume in LaTeX.

@craigmaloney You're not alone 😉

👍 on the LaTeX resume. I always looked for hints of LaTeX when I was in hiring 😏

@tas Pretty sure you'd notice this one; it's about as stock as it gets:

http://decafbad.net/files/resume.pdf

@craigmaloney Looks about right for LaTeX 😁

Job hunting?

@tas Yeah, looking for remote work as a Python back-end developer.

That or a fat wallet on the sidewalk with no ID.

Either will do.

@craigmaloney I don't know many doing remote Python stuff these days 😢

@tas No worries. Seems the world moved on when i wasn't looking. 😁

@craigmaloney ☹

Hopefully something pops up before too long. Looking is always hard.

@tas yeah, no worries.

I need to reinvent myself in some way or other. The "right way" (in my head) is to get myself so I'm not reliant on the whims of employers.

Unfortunately that is risky.

The safe way is to suck it up, put on the brown lipstick (corporate suite #6), and figure out what employers really want.

Unfortunately that makes me want to puke.

😣

@craigmaloney Is it more inherently risky than employers though? Employers seem to have some absurd whims these days that are almost no better than being a contractor. Granted, it depends on the industry in question but the point generally stands IMHO.

You could go COBOL or J2EE. There are some big industries that are hurting 😉

@tas what I'd love to do is professional game design / development. I have a lot of ideas on some pen and paper games that I'd like to publish. And some themes that haven't (afailk) been explored.

They're interesting to me.

The fun part though is P&P RPGs measure success in the hundreds of dollars. So making any kind of reasonable income from that would be ... interesting.

Still, making something is better than nothing.

😣

@craigmaloney you could do P&P releases once a months as a supplemental maybe?

Also, doesn't some huge game studio have an office near you?

@tas Stardock. And they're Windows-only.

I'm not familiar with programming in Windows. Windows is about my 3rd choice for a target platform. :)

@craigmaloney I'd recommend putting it ahead of mobile. I don't regret leaving that industry at this point.

@tas As far as I'm concerned Mobile is akin to targeting slot machines: Already established large players and diminishing returns once you get noticed because of rampant IP theft.