Back in Sunny London

Hello all, and I use the word 'all' optimistically since I don't know how many people actually read this (maybe I should use some hit counter site?), as you could guess by the title of this post I am back in London. The "Sunny" part is somewhat sarcastic, it's been drizzling since we got here but I won't let that get me down. It's good to be here and I've found some recruitment companies that specialise in games jobs.

So far I've got some interest from Datascope, the one that I'm particularly excited about is the Sony job. I got an email from one of the recruiters from Datascope saying they'd like to forward me to Sony (they seem to have an exclusive Sony hiring deal), I said "Sure" in that casual and thus interesting way. You know how these companies don't want you to come across all needy, that's a real turn off. Apparently I had actually applied for a position at 3DLabs, I just saw a job saying the company made there own graphics chips. I thought of Advanced Digital VLSI and thought that might be cool and I could use Magic again. I always downloaded that, installed in, played around with it for a while then forgot about it until the next operating system reinstall I did. It's probably more of a device driver/demonstration development role but it still sounds cool. Another promising position is a contract role in Brighton, 9 months from November or 6 months from January is advertised. Rate is pretty good too (I think) only that the start time might be a little too far away.

Soon I hope I'll meet someone at one of these recruiting agencies and I can get a better understanding of where I can fit in to the games industry. Again, I have a few concerns that I'll be underpaid especially if Paul gets a higher paying job than me, sibling rivalry plays a part in that. But judging by what's happened so far, me working in the South East of the UK seems highly likely.

A big hello to everyone reading my post from BAE Systems Australia. Hi John, hi Jerry, hi William, hi Serge (where's that reference you were going to write me? ^_^), hi everyone else I don't realise is reading this (that's assuming that the first lot are reading it). That reminds me, if anyone can send me Justin Nussio's email address that'd be good. He said he was coming to the UK some time before the end of this year. You guys should have my email address, so I won't post it here (you must know my phobia of spammers ... I did see some Javascript email encoder you can get, but that's a little too fancy for me just now, this may do as well). I'm also trying to get friends postal addresses in secret so I can send postcards and/or Christmas cards when possible, but it's not going so smoothly. I'd appreciate if people could email me their addresses so I can send them stuff (no junk mail or direct marketing I swear).