John's work news

John is still plodding on at Marchpole. His boss (the FD) left in the last few days, things having finally reached an impasse between him and the others on the board.

When he called John in to let him know that he was leaving (which he did within hours of the conversation), he told him that he had never known an IT department to be run so slickly. I have always known that John runs a tight ship, and this was vindication indeed. If only he bottle that and produce it as evidence in an interview... but sadly, it's a little hard to prove.

He still sends in applications to posts nearer home, but age-ism is alive and well in the UK. If you are over 40 in IT, you'd best hang onto the job you've got, because a new one isn't likely to be forthcoming.

Of course, his ideal would be to be offered a job in San Francisco. We fell head over heels in love with the place when we were there last summer, much to my surprise - I had always been completely sure that America wouldn't appeal to me in the slightest.