From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: f43e6,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 10f5bc,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,gid103376,gid10f5bc,gid1108a1,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad01!roadrunner.com!not-for-mail From: Phlip Subject: Re: Am I "Overqualified"? Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.software.testing,comp.object References: <47a0f5a0$1_3@news.bluewin.ch> User-Agent: Pan/0.129 (Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 31 Jan 2008 02:11:47 GMT Message-ID: <47a12e63$0$22814$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.176.90.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.software-eng:9116 comp.lang.ada:19665 comp.software.testing:7506 comp.object:21930 X-Original-Bytes: 1380 Date: 2008-01-31T02:11:47+00:00 List-Id: Ed Berard: > It seems that lately, I have been turned down for an increasing number > of assignments, because I am "overqualified." We have an opening for XP with Ruby on Rails in Irvine, CA. Our development is very rapid, with a trivial bug rate, and no formal QA. (Also we get to see my assert{ 2.0 } in action!;) Opinionated: Good. Too busy pontificating to pair, write tests, pass them, and refactor: Overqualified. -- Phlip