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So I'm home from a fantastic 8 days at GCDS in Gran Canaria and a cultured but boiling hot weekend in Madrid.  There's so much to say about the experience, and so much to do as a result, but those will be for another blog.  Since getting home it's been going downhill rapidly.   Late flights, work production issues seeing me pulling 13 hour days, then to cap it off I get a call from my agent this morning to say my employer is terminating my contract effective end of this month.  It's not a total surprise given the current climate, but what $@%$£% me off is that my coward of a manager who's away on leave today didn't have the guts to tell me himself yesterday when he had ample opportunity.  Forget it being unprofessional, you just don't treat other people that way.

So I'm back in the job market again and its not a good time to be looking. If you know of anyone looking for an old-school mainframe programmer / designer / tech lead in the London area with experience in the banking, telco, and energy markets, then drop me a line.  Or if you're really really really desperate for a C++ hack (I wouldn't deign to label myself a programmer)...

Then again, this is the same disorganised outfit that rang me at 3pm on 24th December while I was at the pub enjoying my leaving drinks to offer me a contract renewal, so who knows what will happen.

Well, look on the bright side, I'm soon going to have all the time in the world to hack on KDE and Qt printing:-)