{"id":84,"date":"2008-02-04T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-02-04T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:41:22","slug":"software-engineer-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2008\/02\/04\/software-engineer-for-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Engineer for Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my cover letter to the world:<\/p>\n<p>==========<br \/>You&#8217;re probably familiar with the kid who sits in class and makes comments like, &#8220;Java isn&#8217;t a real programming language, you can&#8217;t overload operators.&#8221;<br \/>Well that isn&#8217;t me.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably also familiar with the kid who answers all of the easy questions to make it look like they really know what they&#8217;re talking about, and then needs to sit in the TAs office to finish up simple programming assignments.<br \/>That&#8217;s not me either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the guy who finishes the mundane stuff early on so that I have more time to fiddle with my own projects. I have 3 or 4 start up ideas drawn on paper, and I&#8217;ve actually started building some of them, but what I&#8217;ve discovered is there&#8217;s really something lacking if you don&#8217;t have a group of like-minded individuals to share ideas and to tell you that something you&#8217;re doing is stupid or awesome equally. I think I&#8217;m searching for an environment like the one that you have created because I&#8217;m ready to figure out how to revolutionize an industry or an idea. I realize it&#8217;s just not something that you can do alone. I&#8217;m motivated by the reality that success isn&#8217;t random, and that it&#8217;s a combination of good people with good ideas. And I think my see it all, touch it all attitude makes me an asset to a small group who needs someone to do it all in the process of starting a revolution.<br \/>==========<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be available in July, and my resume can be found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my cover letter to the world: ==========You&#8217;re probably familiar with the kid who sits in class and makes comments like, &#8220;Java isn&#8217;t a real programming language, you can&#8217;t overload operators.&#8221;Well that isn&#8217;t me. 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