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Entry level techie job! A quote from someone who knows... "nice people, genuinely casual work environment, no internet monitoring or corporate bs, snacks, beer Fridays, the company is doing really well and has not laid off a single person"

Salary is $30k-$40k depending on experience and qualifications, plus benefits, plus stock - at a well funded software start-up (www.3vr.com). This is a great opportunity for a smart, energetic, self-starting person who wants to break into a higher paying, technology oriented job but perhaps doesn't have the right degree or maybe has stopped-out in the middle of a degree program. Major requirements are intelligence, flexibility, initiative, commitment, responsibility, teamwork, and to be clear - intelligence. We are very interested in talking to you if you are bright and fit the profile we've drawn below - we will be asking what your SAT scores were, where you went to school, etc. Positions available to start immediately, initial hourly rate between $15-$20 an hour depending on experience and qualifications; benefits and stock options offered after 4-6 months of successful employment.

We are a software startup of about 50 people located in the SOMA/South Beach area of San Francisco, around the corner from AT&T Park and the CalTrain station. 3VR makes digital video surveillance products for the physical security industry - our product won the "Best New Product of the Year" award at the Security Industry's big trade show in Las Vegas three years in a row! We are a very fun group of bright, energetic technology people – we’re funded by Tier 1 VCs (including Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures), our sales are healthy and increasing every year, and we will be growing substantially throughout 2010 and beyond, so this is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a terrific company.

Responsibilities: A mixture of several of the following tasks (no one person needs experience in or would be asked to do all of these) - software testing and QA, technical support, technical writing, HTML and web development, scripts, software tools, etc. One person who held this position recently had a science degree and good math skills, but no substantial computer science background - he taught himself some programming and a bunch of other useful skills and has moved up quickly in the 3VR world to Software Engineer. Another person who started with this entry level position had a background in academic grant administration and office management - she started out doing technical writing and software testing, worked her way up in the technology organization, and was promoted to Technical Support Manager!

Profile: You are a software and/or hardware enthusiast - you like computers and computer applications - you care about your computer and what's on it. You are organized and thorough and detail oriented. You are a good communicator, you write clearly and quickly. You enjoy learning to use new software applications and tools. You like being around smart, high energy people. You've often wondered what it would be like to have a job where you are surrounded by people you respected and people you could learn a lot from and who were motivated to teach you things and help you move up in the world. You've dreamed of breaking into technology, especially at an awesome start-up, but have been rebuffed (or been afraid you would be) because you don't already have all of the necessary credentials. You are smart, ambitious, high energy, a voracious learner (especially via Googling anything and everything). You know this is the job for you if reading this has made you very excited to meet the people who wrote this wacky job description and to come and see the company and culture they've built together.

Send us a resume and a cover letter explaining why this is exactly the job for you and why you know you'll do great things for us.

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I thought the "butter" in Butterfingers candy bars referred to butter. A minute after I inhaled that thing I was in trouble! I thought, Oh, i must be on the sensitive side and reacting to crappy chocolate processed on peanut-loving equipment. Then a few not-very-nice breaths later I read the wrapper. Oh shit!

I did albuterol, took benadryl, brushed my teeth, by that point was feeling super awful.I sat back down to do peak flow and got in touch with yatima and minnie over IM just to make sure I didn't panic alone in the house. At the low point was at 275 on peak flow then around 300-350 (normally 550 at least). 350 is uncomfortable and 250 is where I start thinking ER though I can go for a long time at 250. At that point I have a hard time making decisions and am kind of weepy and anxious. Under 350 I don't want to be lying down, it's better to sit up and bend over slightly - it hurts less and is easier to breathe in and be calm. Do other people do that too? I hunch over.

Sooo hunching over the IM, breathing slowly, shaky and anxious, but feeling reasonably on top of it. I have never gone into anaphylaxis though I have seen other people do it. So, confident I could deal. Rook got home and I asked him to bring me my epi-pens - there are two - and leave them with me just in case. Then he went to class. Moomin just read in bed and I didn't tell him anything was wrong b/c I didn't want to freak him out. The benadryl really kicked in... 40 minutes in? something like that.

It's been a while since that happened! Crappy!

I stared at my php code and wrote some notes but didn't get much of anywhere. I have a halfway-working version! It works, but if another person made a mistake, it would break, so I need to build in more bits to compensate.

Maybe an hour and a half later I felt okay and took Moomin to dance class.

Home & to bed.

I just got up and did some housecleaning but that was a mistake, I am wheezing again and concluding that it's not all the way better. More inhaler. More benadryl.

Must call to refill epi-pens tomorrow! The one in my car must be expired too!

That was scary, though.

Air burns going in, but is still very nice.