I looked and realized I haven't blogged in too long a time. A lot has happened since my last post. I took classes in Z/VM (IBM), AI (MIT) and Blockchain (Blockgeeks, Oxford), then was laid off from IBM as they realigned the focus of storage (from senior level people to newbies that are cheaper.) So since Sept 4, 2020 I have been unemployed. After 250+ applications out and only a few interviews and no offers I am about to go semi-retired. I am upgrading my skill set by taking a Big Data Masters class from Intellipaat.
Since Intellipaat is in India and of course I am not, that means my classes run from 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm Monday-Thursday. Learning about Hadoop, Sqoop, Hbase, Flume, Pig, installing Hadoop clusters on AWS and all sorts of interesting topics. Soon I will be even more qualified to sit at home waiting for folks to respond to applications.
In my spare time I helped my daughter find and move into her new house, redo her bathroom, built shelves at my daughters and for my office, an end table, a breakfast tray, small step stool and some coasters. I also wrote a cookbook with over 85 recipes in it from my 46 years of cooking. (https://www.amazon.com/Recipes-Sunset-Cove-Michael-Ault-ebook/dp/B084T8XX1L/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=recipes+from+sunset+cove+kindle&qid=1581775548&sr=8-1)
So I am keeping busy.
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