The days are long and the years are short

Kevin Bacon (the actor) has an actual LinkedIn profile and is a third-degree connection of mine. Weird.

I went to LinkedIn again today. Sigh. I really love the way it is so easy to set up multiple profiles for yourself accidentally. I am linked to several iterations of the same people.

I feel very self-conscious when passing out my business card. But if life is about who you know, the more people that remember that they know me the better! So I will keep on passing them out.

On to the seekers

A highly skilled Jack-of-all-trades in Chicago. Office manager or personal assistant.

A PeopleSoft developer in Northern VA.

A health researcher with expertise in physical therapy in Montgomery County, MD.

A scientist and educator in Montgomery County, MD.

An Oracle developer, DBA and computer librarian in Montgomery County, MD.

Will add people from the comments.

The website that wanted to have the networking effect of being "the" business networking site has decided to close off access to 3rd degree connections. You can't even search them, unless you are a paid member.

I am not giving up on it yet, but I am not all smiles and cheer-leading.

Of course, the work-around (but it isn't very good) is to link to friends of friends and other people that you barely know (or to open networkers).

LinkedIn has upgraded the functionality for groups. I hope that it doesn't get too annoying on larger groups. I have emailed my first degree ISP contacts.

My yahoo account still only lets me have around 10-15 categories for email addresses in my phone book. This is why my child's teacher's email address is in with the PTA group. If I do anything with the PTA, I will need to straighten that out!!!!!!  Hmmm, fooling with it right now. Maybe I've been creating the categories wrong.

I need to improve my biology teaching. However, I haven't been assigned any classes. And that's not a computer problem, there aren't classes forming at the moment.

LinkedIn has made it much, much easier to join groups and start groups. In fact, the thought of starting an ISP group is re-loading itself in my CPU. We'd need a graphic. I am thinking that the two-tone letters is probably the best graphic.

If you are on LinkedIn and want to try to increase its value to you, try looking for a few groups that interest you.

I have a bachelor's degree chemist looking in the Washington, DC area. I think the preferred location is Arlington,VA.

I have a public-health, government-service expert, with experience in quality assurance in Chicago, with experience in IT and Geographic Information Systems.

I have a PhD MRI expert, looking in the Washington, DC area. High-level C and Tcl/Tk programmer.

I have a PhD NMR expert, looking to transition to MRI and do more health-related research.

I have a PeopleSoft expert looking to relocate to the Washington, DC area around Summer 2008.

I have a PhD chemist, with medicinal chemistry experience, looking to start a start-up in Boston, MA. I don't know if this is drug discovery or chemistry support.

I have an MBA looking for project management or entry level accounting / bookkeeping position in the Madison, WI area. Part time would be just fine.

I have a MS chemist looking for forensic chemistry positions, Western Chicago, not starting until Fall 2008. Although, this may be an easy one, since the person previously held a job with the same description in the same location.

Network engineer looking for a position in northern Montgomery County, MD or southern Frederick County, MD.

A lower level bookkeeper looking in Newport News, VA.

An office professional looking in Richmond, VA.

A PhD looking for a counter-terrorism analyst job with the federal government or Beltway Bandit government contractor in DC or environs.

Well, Lent is over so I am logging into LinkedIn more frequently. Thank goodness not every day.

I still have friends looking for work, but now, not so many recruiters.