[fooman]

I know the drill. The bunout, the intense will to win, then the cuts.

Never finish early. Always have tons of intellectual capital in the can.

I have a patent to write up on active-active processing of securities messages.

Too lazy to do it.

[wbill]

Yup. Working at a small place now. Smartest thing that I've ever done employment-wise. Doubt that I'd do it for free, but I don't *dislike* coming to work in the morning. That's probably about as good as it gets for an IT job.

I'm home most nights for dinner. Little bit of travel, mostly day trips. Probably 45-50 hours a week, which is pretty typical IT. People I work with are a bunch of good ol' boys - they know and do their jobs, and expect me to know and do mine. And that's it - none of the corporate nonsense, politics and backbiting.

Took me 20-odd years to find this place, I'm hoping that things hold together here long enough so that I can retire from it.