Re: Friday OT: Adobe Guru wanted in Kauai

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

Tammy,

Send me the posting. I can use it to scare my boss. ;-)

"You know I love working here, but....Hawaii calls!"

-Tony


On Friday, 1 April 2016, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> wrote:

> That's it. Time to bring LavaCon back to its Hawaiian roots.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tammy Van Boening
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 11:44 AM
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> Subject: Friday OT: Adobe Guru wanted in Kauai
>
> So, just returned from a 10 day trip to Kauai. When we landed on the
> island last week and stepped off into clear blue skies with 80+ weather and
> promptly snatched a drink on the way to the beach, I lamented to my husband
> that it would be just wonderful to relocate . . . after all, as an
> independent contractor, my clients can be anywhere, right? My husband,
> always the practical one, (or a buzzkill, really) commented that the
> extreme time difference between Hawaii and my mainland clients wouldn't
> probably be that feasible, and that I would actually probably have to
> consider getting a golden handcuff job - not that I could find one in such
> a "chill"/low-tech environment. The next day, we opened up The Garden
> Island, which is small daily paper for the island of Kauai. It is about as
> thick as a comic book and has a smattering of sports and
> national/international news, a realty section (ranging from too pricey to
> way too ridiculously pricey) and a small want ads section as well. (A
>  nybody remember these before the days of Monster, etc?) Well, smack dab
> in the middle of this want ads section with its usual request for service
> jobs (think Hyatt Valet, bartender, etc.) was a quarter page ad for a FULL
> TIME editor/paginator for the paper itself and full on skills in Adobe
> Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign were mandatory.
> The job provides full medical/dental benefits, company-matched 401K (I
> know that this perk has gone the way of the DoDo bird for even some of the
> Fortune 500 companies), paid vacation (yea, but you're permanently on
> vacation when you live in Kauai, right?) and even sick leave. (Uh, sorry
> boss . . got the flu again. . . hope you don't see me paddle-boarding Popiu
> beach.)
>
> I think that my husband took me seriously for a few minutes after I read
> him the ad and threatened to cancel my return ticket to Denver. :-)
>
> Don't know if relocation would be included for the right candidate, but
> jess' saying. . . . LOL.
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