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Saturday May 15 2004, @12:04AM
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Here's the deal folks! I've been busy lately but one big thing is going to change soon...

I'm moving!

To Seattle!

Well, hopefully a little north of Seattle. I have a friend in Powel River and friends in Vancouver I plan on visiting often, so closer to the border I am, the less of a trip it is.

That being said, I could use some help in finding a job in the area if anyone knows of any. I'm planing on moving probly in july, and I'd be willing to jump out there in june sometime to interview or what not. I'm prob going to jump out there in june anyway to look for a job and a place to live. I wouldn't mind working in a small computer shop or something as long as it pays the bills with a little extra left over.

Now, this is a giant step for me and I've been thinking about it for months and I want to do this, but I am scared and worried and all those normal feelings I'm sure. One thing that would be great is if anyone has any advice with a move this big. Any gotchas you wish someone told you before you moved or anything like that?

Ooh, and is anyone in this area looking for a cheap truck or a nice sedan? :)


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  • But I just wanted to reply now and say I'm really happy for you and proud of you. It's a huge step. I moved to San Diego after college and knew no-one there or even close by. I'll try to think of some sage advice and lay it on you in the am. :)

    'Night.

    • I'm glad I finaly made up my mind. it's been something I've been throwing around in my head sense December. My good friend who I visited in Vancouver in January, she moved to Powell River two months ago. Powell River is a 8-10 hour drive away from Seattle, and the rest of the people I know live in Vancouver proper which is a 4 hour trip iirc. So yeah, for the most part, I don't know a single person for a ways about.

      And I'm sure any advice you give will be sage indeed. :)

      Thanks :)
      • Well, let's see what I can come up with when I'm almost as exhausted but have to stay up for a while...

        Don't have any expectations other than living your life. Don't move there for anyone other than yourself. (Nothing you have said has indicated such, but I'm just saying) Use up stuff you don't want to move now, over the next couple of months. Foodstuffs and such. Try to make it so that you have nothing when you leave so you don't have to bother with giving it away or throwing it away. Don't shut yourself

        • Actually, Sam, that is very sage advice. Everytime I moved, I always had more stuff than when I arrived. Even right now, I don't have any immediate plans to move, but I'm always trying to use stuff up.

          Hopefully I will get to move, & if so, then I'm going to pack very, very light, so that I can easily bring stuff back if I need to. It's the equivalent of packing light for a vacation so that you have enough room for souveniers on the way home.

          Kormoc, if for some reason, you end up moving to Vancouver or
          • actually, Powell River was my first pick for moving, and Vancouver was number two, but alas, it's hard to emigrate into Canada, so hence my northern Washington area.

            I still might end up in the great white north, but not right away :)
            • There's a small town just below the border, that might interest you. If you can get work in Canada, then you'll be able to commute back & forth. It could save 4 hours on your trip to Powell River.
              • I was told bout this town and I would be intrested in working/living there, but I need a job first, I figure I could move and live whereever I find a job first, then if I decide I want to move there, I can.

                getting work in Canada sucks unless you are a citizen. If I could get a work visa, I could live in Canada proper, but because I'm not a citizen and I don't have enough points to immigrate, most canadian companys didn't seem too eager to take me, esp with my limited experence and schooling.

                we shall see :
        • Luckly I don't have much to move, two boxes of books, a bag of clothes, prob two or three boxes of nicknacks and my computer equipment. I was actually thinking of flying out there and shipping my stuff there, but weight with the computer eq might be a problem. I can fit all I own into my grand am, so maybe I'll drive.

          A clean slate is very appealing to me so it should be fun, and I think I'll learn a lot more this way anyway, so whee!
          • You'll learn more than you think you will, and you'll learn things you're not expecting to. Maybe re-read over my journals from last summer where I transcribed my solo trip to Europe to see how things can just "happen". :)

            Good luck to you, k-dawg. I've got a friend in Seattle, I'll ask him if his company has any tech openings.

  • F5 is centered in seatle [rezkeeper.com]

    I don't know if ou qualify as a network support eng, but, hey, why not?
    • Minimum 2 years work experience in a technical support role, working with relevant technologies.

      Hrm. I have a little over a year's work experience as a application developer and that's really bout it. :/ I also don't really know networking very well, but I shall grab a book or two and see what I can come up with here in a bit. I might as well still apply if I like what I learn :)

      Thanks man
      • well, F5 is all networking, so unless you have a keen interest in it, you may want to skip.

        I'll give you a hint on programming for TCP/IP (TCP in particular)- everything you think you know about sockets is FUCKING WRONG. I've seen some horrible fucking code put out by "advanced technology laboratories"- their lack of error handling/predicting EVERY worst case scenario is pathetic.

        You don't get a "message" off of a socket, you get a "Stream of bytes"- you gotta figure out where one "message" ends and beg
        • keen intrest... hrm... Not really, but my understanding of the job post was it was more of a customer support type position. Maybe I'm just really wrong :)

          I'm not too keen on being a support person, but I'd be willing to give it a shot if it's whats there for me. My dream job would be a little computer shop where I can do some system building, configuring, trouble shooting and some coding here and there, nothing too fancy, nothing too stressful, etc. Maybe I'll find something like that, maybe not :)

          Thanks
  • I live in Surrey, which what you'll probably pass through 1st when you go over the US-Canadian border. I'd be interested in meeting you & others. It doesn't have to be very long, especially since I don't do much exciting stuff. :^)
    • I'd love to meet ya sometime :)

      Infact, my trip in June is planed that I'd fly out to vancouver, take a bus to Powell River, visit my friend for a few days, She and I then on like friday bus down to Vancouver, we'd both visit friends in vancouver and then pick up another friend and drive down to Seattle to meet another dude or three I know online, and if all this happens, we'd be driving right by ya, so maybe that would be a good time to meet up and you'd get to meet two other really cool people as well :)
      • I'll be busy around June 5th, when my parents have their anniversary, but I'm sure that we can work around it. I'm not saying that the anniversary isn't important, but they understand that I don't get out much, & we usually only celebrate with supper & games [board games or card games] anyways.

        Other than that, I'll block off my entire month in some sort of way.

        Pool definitely is good. I understand the math behind it, but I'm not that good, so we'll all be pretty evenly matched. Other activities mi
        • Well, I just realized how bloody soon I'm talking bout...

          Geeze... Time sure flys...

          Anyway, I'll talk to the people I'm planing with and get some dates nailed down that way I get cheaper airfare :)

          I'm thinking pool and maybe some food at a casual place would be good. Maybe a bar and grill with a pool table so we kill two birds with one stone?

          Hrm... Here's what I'm thinking. We'd leave Vancouver like noonish and get down to you bout oneish or so, we could meet up and head out for some lunch, then play som

          • I'm thinking pool and maybe some food at a casual place would be good. Maybe a bar and grill with a pool table so we kill two birds with one stone?

            That sounds good. I'll look into finding a place in Surrey. There should be 1 or 2 places near downtown Surrey or near where I live. I live in west Newton, which is very close to the Delta-Surrey boundary. Our downtown is in the north part of Surrey.

            Hrm... Here's what I'm thinking. We'd leave Vancouver like noonish and get down to you bout oneish or so, we could

  • Maybe I'll say hi when I get back!
  • Having lived in Washington for my whole life let me get you up to speed on things here.

    First of all to help with the commute I would find a place to work first and then find a place close by. Traffic sucks really badly.

    From Mount Vernon up to the border there isn't a damn thing. It is like a little oasis of quasi civilization. If you are into that sort of thing, great. If not...

    Everett is about where the north end of civilization begins here and extends south to the extreme south of Tacoma. This 12
    • With the commute, I would love to be able to walk to work everyday if I could, that would be grand. I used to be able to do that and I loved it. :)
      Saves tons on gas as well.

      It is like a little oasis of quasi civilization.
      Millersville, Pa. Size: 2 Square Miles, Population: 2,500. That's where I'm comming from. I can walk from one side of Millersville to the other in like 30 min or so. So yeah... The big city will be... different...

      I do plan on visiting Vancouver often, once every few months or so, but I
      • Ok, so you want to be close to your friends. I would recommend Mount Vernon or Bellingham. In looking at a map [discoverpowellriver.com] of where Powell River was I remembered that Bellingham is also up there. Check out For Rent [forrent.com] magazine or this [apartmentrentalguide.com] guide to check out aparments and the like. The only real way to tell where something is around here is to just go look at it in person. You can check out the address using the map guide at yahoo.com, but that will only tell you how to get there and what is around there, not actually any usef
        • Hrm. I'm not sure exactly what I want I guess. You see, like... I'm a country bumbkin in a lot of ways :P I never lock my doors at home, even when noone is there, and I never lock my car and I leave the windows down with stuff in it that's easy to snag, but noone does. The most we really have to worry bout is some punk high schoolers or drunk college kids, nothing really at all, so yeah... I'm going to have to look in person a bit I guess.

          I do wnat to live close to my friends, but getting a job is much mor
  • i sorta did something very similar in 1998 -- i was a couple years out of college, working at a web design startup and earning almost no money, and living at my parents house. All of a sudden, I just decided to up and leave and move to baltimore to be with my girlfriend.

    no job, no job prospects, just my subaru filled with my stuff I moved in with my gf into a small apartment in an old house.

    It was very nerve-wracking experience to just relocate and it took several weeks for me to adjust to the new surroun
    • Yeah, I figure I'll move, and live for a week or two. then I'll realize that wait. I'm not going back. this isn't a vacation. I'm on my own.

      My problem is money, I don't have enough money to just move out there and live for long without a job. Hence my going out to job hunt before I actually move. but if I don't come accross anything on my hunt, I will probly end up just moving.

      Yeah, I need the change, so might as well is my thinking, and if all goes too batty, I can always move back :)
  • As many have said, this area is a hotbed of niceness ;) Just stay off the roads between 6am-6pm. As for jobs, well...my former employer, Speakeasy [speakeasy.net], is hiring (according to their site) Network Engineers, and Personal Technology Advisors (nice job, if you like tech support, but don't like dealing with the masses). It took me 4 months of looking to find a job that pays barely minimum wage (7.16 is the minimum wage here, woohoo), but you're probably more qualified than I. If you need advice on where to live in
    • Hello!
      Rgr! Stay off the roads. I'll do my best :)
      Speakeasy sounds like a awesome place to work, least from my limited memory of people talking bout the company. PTA sounds like a possable position. I'd assume for the most part geeks are the ones who sign up. Now, feel free to tell me that it's none of my concern or any of that, but why did you leave Speakeasy? Did it suck the big one or was it a good parting? I also don't see any pay scale for what these positions pay, I'd assume it's based on one's ablitys
      • It was a great place to work, it's really nice if you're a laid-back sort of person. I left because I went back to school, we parted on fairly good terms. I made 13$/hr doing just tech support, so I would imagine the pay is the same or better for the PTA job.
        • Sounds like a real contender :)

          I am very layed back in person and $13 a hour sounds like a good starting point. :)

          Thanks! :)
  • the only times i've been out there was for a friend's wedding and then again on my honeymoon. i must say i liked the area.

    i hope some of these other smarter people can get you the help that you need.
  • I have lived in the Seattle area for most of my life, and actually just spent the past weekend in Vancouver BC.

    Talinom gave you some pretty good information, but there are a few things that I think you should be aware of. Everyone knows that the tech industry went into a slump a few years ago with the dot com crash, but this area is only VERY SLOWLY recovering. (Talinom knows this first hand, because he was employed in the computer field, got laid off and has been unable to find anything in that field sin

    • Yeah, i figured that there wouldn't be a tech job, but I figure might as well look for one. I wouldn't mind working in anything, computer related or not so I figure I'd be able to find /something/ or else, I'll just come back to the east coast.

      Thanks for letting me know that it's not all fun and games :)

      • I really hated to be the one to say it, but I had to give you a bit of the reality that jobs weren't so easy to come by here.

        Now, that's not saying that you couldn't walk right in and get a tech job, but I didn't want you to come out here with that idea and have you get broadsided.

        I think that this is one of the most beautiful areas in the nation, and though I haven't lived very many other places, I have traveled a fair bit, and I wouldn't live anywhere else.

        I wish you the best of luck, and if you need a

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