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I'm employed full time these days at Moffitt and Associates as their IT guy. I have my own office and my own parking space. I don't get any money. I just working in the family business. I still have to work on client stuff, too. I am busier than a three-peckered billy goat.
The fellow who had this job before me -- and was fired -- knew just enough to keep our old, cobbled-together systems going. He was an adequate hardware monkey. He was not up to the task of managing software development.
When our current automation was all built, it pushed the envelope with what could be done with PCs and MS- DOS. The programmer, a woman named Jill, did things for cheap that other folks weren't able to do for big bucks. But it is old. It requires DOS to run. And it is fragile. There are a hundred places where the system could drop dead. It's old and it's a bit clunky because technology has zoomed ahead while.
Two major systems need rewriting. And it need happen pretty quickly. Quickly enough, that I might contract out large bits of it. We will see.
In the mean time, I'm wearing a tie and working my little fingers to the bone to maintain the lifestyle I stumbled into by falling in love with Stacey.
The fellow who had this job before me -- and was fired -- knew just enough to keep our old, cobbled-together systems going. He was an adequate hardware monkey. He was not up to the task of managing software development.
When our current automation was all built, it pushed the envelope with what could be done with PCs and MS- DOS. The programmer, a woman named Jill, did things for cheap that other folks weren't able to do for big bucks. But it is old. It requires DOS to run. And it is fragile. There are a hundred places where the system could drop dead. It's old and it's a bit clunky because technology has zoomed ahead while.
Two major systems need rewriting. And it need happen pretty quickly. Quickly enough, that I might contract out large bits of it. We will see.
In the mean time, I'm wearing a tie and working my little fingers to the bone to maintain the lifestyle I stumbled into by falling in love with Stacey.