My Perfect Life! & the Global Financial Crisis
- 2 April 2009
Until two months ago my life was perfect, I had the perfect job, the perfect man and the perfect car and to top it all off my beautiful Miss 16 moved back home to complete my family portrait. All of that changed dramatically on the 16th January 2009, when I was informed that as a result of the Global Financial Crisis I no longer had a job. I had one months notice and unfortunately because I had worked for the company for 2 business days short of 12 months was entitled to no severance pay. BTW I still have the perfect man and the perfect car, and my two beautiful children.
What I don’t have at the moment is a job, I would really love a job or at least enough freelance work to keep my head above water. I have 12 years experience in the IT Industry with a focus on Adobe technologies (my skills are not limited to Adobe Technologies and are easily translated across platforms), more specifically:
Adobe LiveCycle
Adobe ColdFusion
Adobe Flex
Adobe AIR
I have worked in the web space for 12 years and have vast experience in many roles including but not limited to Technical Solutions Architecture, Project Management, SOA Solutions, Business Analysis, User Experience Design and of course the programming. I have fantastic people skills and work well with clients and business owners, I have worked in Federal Government and in the Private Sector. I am active in the local community here in Canberra and am the ACT Adobe Products User Group Manager, I was an Unorganizer at BarCamp Canberra this year and am an Unorganizer for the upcoming Gov 2.0 Camp in Canberra. I am an active participant and collaborator in the Web 2.0 and Social Networking space.
I am a passionate and loyal employee when I do have an employer, please feel free to contact me if you think I may fit into a spot within your organisation. Following are my contact details:
twitter: @rbuerckner
skype: ivanova1111 (yes I am a Babylon 5 fan)
m: + 61 404 675 028
e: rae dot buerckner at gmail dot com
Hey Rae, you should lap up the free time you have now… my senses and your skills tell me you will have a job in approx zero time
Best luck with it all!! 
Amie
These challenges are sent to us, aren’t they!? Hopefully, this will clear the way for an opportunity.
In 2000, not long after finishing my degree finally (young mother of 2 kids), I broke my ankle. I was wheelchair-bound for 6 mths & had 5 operations. Apart from a finishing bottles of whiskey on a regular basis to dull the pain, I was unsure what to do with my Life.
So, I started to design and build my kids’ school website. To cut a long story short, this was how/why I got into the web industry. Taught myself HTML and learned how to engage with stakeholders via phone/meetings. It changed my Life in a very positive way. At the time, it felt like shit & there was no way that I could foresee how it would be anything but shit. Now, I’m grateful.
Hope that helps a tiny bit! Stay positive and use it as an opportunity to explore things that you didn’t have time for previously
Cheers Caronne
At least you kept the perfect man!
Cheers,
Craig