One in billions, or at least a plethora

One of the events I overextended myself on last week was a job fair.  I just walked out.  The place was swarming with data analysts / geeks / BI Developers... people just like me for four companies, one of which was not hiring.  The Job Fair Meetup was so badly organized they even changed the location two hours before the event start.  I knew it was probably gonna go south beforehand, but I went anyways because I was hoping there might be free beer and I might make a new friend.  Which I did.  I'll be reaching out to some of my friends in PM world because this young woman is just brilliant and she wants to work for a big company.  I know.  That's nuts, but what the hey.  It takes all types.  She and I bonded b/c she is a little bit cra-cra, but such a hoot and so very, very bright.

I figure I'm like a sperm looking for the egg these days, swimming upstream with a bejillion other little wigglies, looking for that final home.  Once we finally meet, I can divide and multiply a second round of goodness.  Until then, I am just one in a bejillion.  Really.  I get  it.  This is one reason I didn't want to leave before  - this reduction of self to one in a mass is a powerful binder for keeping one's ass in the same cube year after year.

However, even job searching is turning out to  be fun.  I haven't figured out how to prioritize my Meetups, so I'm exhausted.  I feel like a debutante with a full social calendar.  I'm also having to learn new skills, like how to network and this is not always comfortable, and is sometimes even humbling.  But then there are these moments where it really really clicks and it's so cool.  Last week I felt much more comfortable moving around the space.  This week I'm meeting with two people I met at another meetup last week.  It has nothing to do with a job for me, but I'd be interested in understanding why they'd like to meet with me - besides I'm fun and funny.  Plus, I'm looking forward spending more time with two other friends I've picked up at various events.

Also, after the lousy "job fair," my new friend & I went to a pub down on First Avenue.  We were planning to wait for a second Meetup scheduled that evening where Facebook was to give a talk.  Instead we made other new friends.  A group of four who were meeting in Seattle as part of a workgroup meeting.  The Dev lead was from Vietnam, the PM from Seattle, the architect from LA.  Tres cool, lotsa laughs, I shoved 'em my resume after they saw I did BI work.  No, I do not expect to get a call back, although I did get a polite reply.  Remember, I am fertilizing right now.  Sperm miss is to be expected.  I had a few laughs though.

Another thing I accomplished last week was my 30 second blurb about myself.  Lemme know if it's vomitous.

I'm looking for is a company with a very large data lake and a drive to grow that lake with the weekly acquisition of petabytes from a variety of sources and types.  As a multi-lingual backend developer specializing in query languages in the BI space, I've also done ETL, and dabbled in database development. I want to work with very smart people who have fun working together in a highly productive environment where they have the power to make interesting things happen.