A couple of weeks back, I was chatting to someone at the board game evening - he's Australian, so we've been comparing stories about why we ended up here and what we're doing with ourselves. I mentioned that I was looking for web development work.
He called yesterday; his company is looking for a new web developer. So I've spent the day at their offices, looking over how they do things and trying to get my head around the vast number of acronyms they use. It's an internet telephony company - they sell phone access via the internet to companies, and my duties will be in a support role. They have a billing database that does almost exactly what they want, but there are a few amendments that they'd like; and the admin system was written using a technology that no one can support now that the developer has left.
They use a lot of technologies that I've never used, but I'm confident that I can learn what I need to quickly enough - it's just a case of getting to grips with how things work. I've had a look at the code they want to migrate on their admin system, and I can mostly understand what it's doing, though without any understanding of why it's doing it, which would definitely make things easier.
So there you go. I seem to have lucked into a job! Keep your fingers crossed that I can keep it for longer than the last one...
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