Skevin's Journal: Job Rants, part trois

I sheepishly have to retract my first post along this topic. I recently answered a posting on Dice that PriceGrabber.com put up, and after a couple of interviews, I was suddenly in. In the immortal words of Weird Al Yankovic (Genius in France), "How did this happen? I don't have a clue." Was it my interaction with the LAMP community? Was it the conferences I was attending? Was it those pieces of paper called certifications I was pursuing? Chances are, I'll never know. PriceGrabber is not small (and in fact, is a Slashdot affiliate), so chances are, they went through quite a few people before giving me a call. It's amazing how building a lot of quasi-legal job-search sites for foreign interests skews your belief system.