Dru’s New World

I just noticed that My birthday was last week… Well I guess I forgot that one. Anyway, Someone else didn’t and made a Post on her site for me.
The reason I am linking this is because She got a really nice picture of my new house on there:
http://holliboyd.com/2008/05/happy-birthday-honey/

I am in the Market for a new job. When I was a manager I learned that the more fun your Team has the better quality of work you get out of them.
My Current Position is very Old School and all my fellow team members keep warning me every time I smile. Well seeing the lack of enjoyment in my position my Girlfriend sent me a Job she found. This is a company I have watched for a few months just because I stumbled on the Founders Blog and liked what I saw and then realized he was local to me.
Just a couple of statements from the position.
First what draws me to this - “We’re seeking bright, talented, Internet-savvy people who are gung-ho about learning the art of Internet marketing” - I am bright and Internet Savvy. Talented in what I have time to practice… My current Job doesn’t give me much time to read up on Internet Marketing but Those from Whiteseasons will remember how excited I was when I saw a Google Pagerank of 3.
“you do NOT need to know web design or programming” - This is good because I usually find the code I want and then manipulate for my needs. Why create something new when there is so many open source programs out there?
When I was a Manager I would notice that when I stopped all work in the middle of the day to throw a game of Darts, Those that participated would work harder after the game was over. This lead to my supervisor yelling at me a lot but we never stopped because every time we did this the project would beat the deadline. So this leads me to the last statement and the best statement, “There’s free ice cream at the office, we pay your monthly parking, we have pizza days, a ping pong table, and more.
Food and Ping Pong!!!! How in the world could it get better than that? Free Icecream - I may get fat but I would be one Fat, Happy employee… Hmmm… If I was to get a job like this somewhere I think my suggestion would be Weekly Dart tournament - The winner gets a free Ice Cream Cone.
Did I apply? OF COURSE…
Will I get the Job??? Probably won’t even get a call but it does give me hope that there are places out there like this.

When I was growing up I played Soccer most of my life. Until 9th grade when I decided that being a soccer Goalie was not that fun anymore. My daughter is on her third year of Soccer and has finally realized the love and insanity for a sport that you must have to be a goalie. Yes she is as Crazy as I was when it came to jumping infront of anything… maybe next spring I can get her to try this: (Rarely is there a highlight video of Goalies)

There is not a single person out there that knows how to do everything and is a master of all. Except maybe Thinker. The one thing I realized is you are only as good as the Professionals that you hire. Yesterday I went to court again for Child Support. Again nothing happened. I will admit the my financial status is really hurting because of the amount of money I pour out and the lack of funds coming in. This is why there are so many advertisements on this site.

After court, My Lawyer who has been great and although reminds me I haven’t payed him in a long time, said to me, “Can I buy you a cup of coffee.”

After sitting in the Coffee Shop with my Lawyer for an hour and him paying for my coffee the whole time talking about everything from the current legal status to the hot girl I have been dating, I realized something. Life can get difficult and everyone needs to have a support system. This includes those of us that need to pay professionals for things that you do not have the knowledge about.

I then looked at my life right now. I am currently working full time and raising two daughters on my own. On top of that I am looking into and own investment property. I am not that knowledgable about certain things like Real estate Market and property values and stuff like that. So I have a Real Estate Agent that I hired. She has been great. Not only has she got me into a great investment property she is great at advising me with more investments and getting me in with the right people to make this a profitable business. The reason she is so great: Because she seams to care about me and my Girls and realizes that if she can get me in the position to make a profit I will be in the position to make her more money.

I have a Lawyer I have had for almost two years. Why is this a great person to hire although he charges more than most other lawyers? The whole fact that he has stuck to the feeling from the beginning, “You are a great man, Dru. You are a great Father. I will not let you get the wrong end of the Stick.”

This whole situation with my lawyer taking me out for Coffee was the proof of that. He saw that I have been depressed and wanted to talk to me as a person that knows that if I get the best work from him I will always require a Lawyer around to get my life in a better place. He also knows that if He provides the best service to me he will get me what I need so I can pay him.

This is why I always say that if you have something that you need but you are not an expert in that field hire for how they are not how much they are. My Investment Property will get me a $2000 a month Profit once i get tenants that will pay the rent. For this I have a great Lawyer that will help me get the wrong people out and the right people in.

Thanks Demo and Holli for being the best people you are.

As some of my readers know my job title is Information blah blah blah… I am in Network Security.
Anyway the other day I was doing some Wardriving with a new fun toy Work just got.
I work in a very secured area with some national interest shown here. So our Security is suppose to be high importance. I decided to walk the perimmiter of the Fence and see what I could find. When professionals set up Wireless Routers they usually Name the SSID to something unguessable (Is that a word) and then turn off Broadcasting so people can’t say, “ohhh I have wireless connection, its from Jim next door because the SSID is named JimNextDoor” But then there are those professionals that also leave everything security free so that ummm lets say… ummm all their tenants can have access to the internet. (I can’t think of anyone that does this)
Well I am reminded of a post from another IT Nerds Blog that was about what people will search google.
I am not that good at make lists like that so I will put the couple I saw on my perimeter walk:
ilovecock
cantguessthis
and the best
Dadisass

Now I can see the last one - “Son(or Daughter) I know I caught you smoking dope so I grounded you off the internet for the next 3 weeks, but I just got this Linksys router. It has wireless, can you hook it up for me?”
“Dad, Can I use it for my computer in my room?”
“In three weeks you can”