Saturday September 6th: SQL Saturday #320 in Raleigh, NC
Saturday September 13th: SQL Saturday #300 in Kansas City, MO
Tuesday September 16th: PASSMN September Meeting
Wednesday September 24th: Presenting at MADPASS in Madison, WI
Saturday September 6th: SQL Saturday #320 in Raleigh, NC
Saturday September 13th: SQL Saturday #300 in Kansas City, MO
Tuesday September 16th: PASSMN September Meeting
Wednesday September 24th: Presenting at MADPASS in Madison, WI
Saturday March 29th: SQL Saturday #287 in Madison, WI
Tuesday April 1st: PASSMN Tabletop Gaming and Pizza Night (No Foolin’)
Saturday April 26th: SQL Saturday #291 in Chicago, IL
Saturday October 12th: SQL Saturday #238 in my own back yard.
Monday October 14: I will be attending Redgate’s SQL in the City Charlotte, NC.
October 15-8: My first time attending the PASS Summit!
On Saturday October 19th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #237 BI Edition in Charlotte, NC.
On Saturday April 6th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #206 in Madison, WI.
On Saturday April 11th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #211 in Chicago, IL.
On Saturday April 27th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #175 in Fargo, ND.
End of last year: I switched to the consulting world and I am now an Information Management Consultant at Digineer.
Earlier this year : As of January 1, 2013 I was assigned the role of Director of Program Development for the PASSMN Board. We’re looking for a few good SQLGeeks to present.
On Saturday April 6th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #206 in Madison, WI.
On Saturday April 11th: I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #211 in Chicago, IL.

It is easy to complain about our jobs. Spend enough time doing something and it just can’t be wonderful all the time or probably even most of the time. Hopefully it is good some of the time or at least enough that you don’t hate getting up every day. I may not have found my dream job yet, but there are definitely things I enjoy about where I work.
I’m late to the game with Meme15, but when I saw this month was going to be about LinkedIn I was glad to join in on the conversation. In my experience LinkedIn is sort of the step-child of the social media world; the slightly standoffish, well-behaved step child who has a really good job. Which is what LinkedIn is about, jobs and careers. It is the place to be for professional networking and I lived there 24/7 for a couple of weeks back in October 2011 after getting laid off. Continue reading