I will start by firstly wishing you the greatest of luck with this position! You of all people know how important it is to stay positive and confident about the prospect of securing the position so please stay positive and focus all your energy into securing the role!

In regards to what you have said it relates to me strongly as I too do not hold a degree of any kind and failed at school, however what I do have is a gift to “Influence” and a gift to “relate” with people on all different levels. I believe this was always an attribute I held however it showed itself when I was working part time in a supermarket where I was always conversing with customers.

When I decided to pursue a career in real estate it was to be honest met with much doubt by family and friends, I even remember yourself showing some amount of doubt or “worry” in my choice to take such a leap. I being the positive self I was chose to ignore this negative energy and instead I took on the “Ill prove you all wrong” approach, this gave me all the energy I needed to succeed and succeed I did, earning many awards and earning the respect of my peers in the industry.

One must also remember it is not only the position we must focus on, it is also the relationships we build along the way. While I sit here writing this message to you I have an inbox flashing at me and I can tell you there are 3 job offers in there, one is a position at a Commercial Firm in Sydney, the other is middle management with a Malay shipping commpany and the third is for a private builder / developer.

These offers have come to me due to the relationships I have built throughout my career thus far.

As I have just done you also have illustrated the need for a degree or further study will not guarantee anyone a position, it may earn you the chance to sit down for the interview but the important moment is that connection you build with management and the message you can convey to them.

This my friend is something you have the power to do! so beleive it and make it your reality

The only issues I have are the wireless, which I fixed by downloading the driver from Realtek directly and suspend does not work. I repartitioned and put in Ubuntu and did a restore and suspend also does not work on that restored install. I do not know if it ever worked on the original install. I did not take the time to try it. My only other gripe is the mouse. It does not scroll when dragging on the right edge. Not a big deal.

For me this is a work system. I didn’t have time to play with it. I needed to get all my stuff functioning in short order. I have to say, this is the nicest display, the most powerful hardware (ordered the i7 840QM and 8GB of RAM), and the best keyboard I’ve ever had. I like the fact that it has a microphone and camera built in. I don’t have to bring anything with me to use Skype with video.

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the pictures. I hope System 76 keeps growing. This is my first purchase from them and I’m absolutely thrilled with it.

Anyway, thanks for the tip, it showed me which areas i should improve on my CV/LinkedIN

Besides, as the PC comes down in price more people get into the market, which allows Microsoft to reduce the price of Windows while still making a nice income.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

<insert by mike use this terminal command to edit the file "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"

add the following line to it:
blacklist pcspkr

The annoying beep will be gone. Also you won't get the loud annoying beep when you mis-key in a terminal tty session (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1).

Cheers!

Most “standard” PC users are not going to be willing to learn a new system and deal with the problems for a couple of hundred dollars.
Will the software that comes with my printer work with Ubuntu – No
Will the PC Game that my 5 year old got from the Cornflakes box work with Ubuntu – No
Will i sacrifice a couple of hundred dollars to deal with that – No

If not, how are you accomplishing the dual monitor setup.

Mike B.

Cheers, Pierre

Thanks for posting a great reference list.
Lee

I hope to make connections with great entertainment content creators the world over and bring some together in a cohesive effort to reshape and remake the entire industry in a less tainted, more equitable outlet that allows for unprecedented , unencumbered creativity from a wider pool of artists.

Being out of the market for the past ten years, has open my eyes on how fast our technology changes.

Excellent steps, I will keep you all posted on how my job hunting turns out.
Stay tune.

Sincerely,
New Friend in the “Linkedin” block.

Now that I am employed I am struggleing with how to use linked in to network for business. I want to respect the fact that most people are not on linkedin to be sold to. However, I can’t help but think that there are those out there who would like to know about what my company does and how it can help them.

I would love to know how others have non invasively used linkedin to market their businesses and had success.

Regards,
Larry

Also, how to add LinkedIn button to facebook and own website – are there tutorials as I didn’t find when I looked…

Thank you!

sometimes its difficult to get connected with someone whom uu would want to be in your professional connection list.

Geat site.

- The most challenging thing for me is to get recommandation from my former employee, because it was 10 years ago my last job took place in Shanghai, and now I live in Denmark,so it is a bit difficult.

For me, there’s really only one: to find a job. After a surprise layoff followed by a grieving period, LinkedIn was suggested by a colleague. As an internet professional, I never approached LI probably because I had no desire for any more social bandwidth in my already full life. Now that the balance is shifted, it has become an essential tool in networking, which is not a necessarily a plus for internet professionals like myself who, like moles, tend to stay within the confines of their day-to-day tasks.

What are the main things you find challenging?

Networking is challenging or my concept of networking is challenging so maybe I’m reading more into it than is necessary. Back in the salad days networking meant having a steady job and hanging out with your peers to talk about the industry, complain about such and such, and poke fun at recent grads and each other.

But how have the rules changed since then? Have online social networking, while opening the playing field, really helped anyone? I don’t know the answer to that. And to prove the irony is not lost on me, I’m in the internet business. Now *that’s* challenging.

Just a quick note to another earlier poster, JP – Don’t be afraid to post a technical question for fear that a colleague or competitor will think less of you. I’ve always lived by the maxim, “The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.” It takes an intellectually mature person to admit they don’t know something and ask for help. I’d think less of you if you DIDN’T ask about something you wanted to understand better. Besides, anyone who would judge you based on that criterion is a fool, and who cares what fools think?

I hope this post isn’t too long – I’m fairly new to the blogosphere, and I’m still learning the etiquette. My apologies if my reply runneth over…

Jim Whitaker