#140conf experiment (day two)

Welcome to the second day of the experiment. I’ve been struggling to find my muse for speaking topics lately. I live near Manhattan, and want to submit a proposal for this spring’s #140conf. I’d like to offer one for OSCON as well but that isn’t as critical to me right now.

The conundrum is that I don’t want to speak about something that well boring. I mean what’s the point. Finding a subject(s) that I found interesting and exciting can be a challenge in and of itself.

To this add the decision that I prefer working for a company. Although consulting is a good living, and my company Olivent is doing well enough I miss getting up in the morning riding that stupid train to an office in the city. Interacting with coworkers, and solving more than computer problems. I know call me crazy but I actually enjoy managing people and seem to be best suited to an XO position.

Olivent as I have defined it will never be a huge company with a bunch of employees. In fact that is part of the business model, absolutely no employees. I hardly meet with client face to face as most of the work is performed via remote access. In addition my editors are in Poland, thus I have never met them face to face or even talked with them on the phone. The bottom line I need to get out of the house and I need to go back to the daily grind.

Since have chosen to return to the regular workforce during the tail end of the Great Recession, it has been an interesting challenge. Obviously there are a lot of people also looking for work. Countless phone interviews and numerous on sites with companies that clearly under value their employees. Followed by the most disappointing fact is that in most cases I am over qualified for 90% of the positions I have found thus far.

All of this leads me to a few days ago I receive my daily horoscope via email, that said trust in the universe something something something. While normally I hit delete rather quickly this time I decided to give it a go. At roughly the same time I read the call for proposals for #140conf NYC and thought thought if twitter, can help me network into the right job then this is something I can talk about.

So there you have it. I burned a copy of the resume to PDF and dropped it on the web. Then I dropped a few tweets about the experiment and am letting the universe take over.

Ok you read this far and are wonder how to help in the experiment. That’s the easy part, when you see a note like the following just retweet it. If you know anyone in your network of connections that might be looking for a Director of IT, CIO or CTO then you know what to do.

EXAMPLE::

#140conf experiment: Can twitter connect a computer genius http://bit.ly/8p1tQ5 to their dream job ..please retweet