I’m often trying to help friends in San Luis Obispo find good tech jobs. Here’s a list of companies I’ve compiled and links to their job pages:
Good luck and happy job hunting!
[Preface: I seem to have a constant need to engage in a conversation with my favorite blogging Realtor Keith Byrd. Keith, I hope you know I love your blog that's why I read it. The fact that I disagree with you consistently and need to provide a counter point has nothing to do with your skill as a Realtor or a blogger.]
With Keith’s latest post on Cal Poly’s instruction to have students drag a Realtor through a buying process as a “learn by doing” experience, I’ve found myself wondering about his conclusion: Is this learn by deceiving? I think it is. However, I also think it’s fair turn around. We are now experiencing one of the worst economic down turns due to the fact that multiple professionals did not throw up a red flag during the housing boom. Instead of doing their due diligence as Realtors and advising their clients that while a home is definitely a great investment, it might not be the best investment for them if they have to take a sub prime mortgage. Isn’t that also a deception? Is it fair turn around for students to now use Realtors to learn about a buying process? I’ve never been a fan of the “eye for an eye” as it usually leaves everyone blind, but I have a hard time staying quiet when the Realtor could attone for their misdeeds by helping out a college student.
We’re destined to make the same mistakes over and over unless we learn from them. Be the bigger man (or woman) and help the college students out. Just know they are probably not in the market to buy a home but help them anyway. This is your chance to stand up and be the bigger person.
To the students of whichever class this is for: Be honest. Tell the Realtor what you’re trying to do and hope they are an upstanding human being as well and will help you through the process. Win win for everyone.
Keith Byrd brought up an interesting point around the party that’s been going around Facebook. If a Cal Poly student initiated it and a radio station is doing the music who’s responsible for the cleanup and moderation of the party? The Cal Poly Student? The Radio Station? I’d like to suggest that number one it’s the job of the police to serve the community and whether we throw a party or not it’s their job to help moderate it. We, the citizens, pay their salaries through taxes and it’s their job to protect and serve us.
On the ground of clean up, I would hope that the community would clean up the beach afterwords. And if not, I’ll go down and help out.
Who’s ultimately responsible? I’m not entirely sure… I’d contend that you (Keith Byrd) and myself (Jesse Bilsten) are now also to blame because we’ve help spread the word on the party. What I’m really curious about is why do we have to blame someone for this event before it has even happened? I believe it’s this line of thinking that has brought an end to both Poly Royal and Mardi Gras. Can’t we just have fun and be responsible? And if something does get out of hand, would it be too much to ask for the police to do their job and take care of it? We don’t have to cancel fun activities just because they’re difficult to manage and clean up after. I’m willing to get my hands dirty and clean up after everyone if it means we get to have more fun events in this community and help drive tourists to the economy.
Imagine how great it would be for the Shell Beach economy to have all the hotels full and tourists purchasing food. I think it’s worth it from an economic stand point and I think our local police officers can more than handle the situation. We have an awesome police force, let’s let them do their job and keep the peace. Instead of looking for blame and trying to shut down these great events that help drive our small economy.
That’s my 2 cents.
I recently saw your link over on Keith Byrd’s San Luis Obispo Real Estate website. I actually tried one of your pizza’s recently and was quite impressed. It was very good and although a bit more expensive than I’d like for a pizza different enough to warrant me buying a second one sometime soon. However this isn’t about your food, it’s about your website.I’d like to make you aware of some issues with an all Flash (that’s the animation and multimedia technology used to deliver your current website) website:
It’s in your best interest to make things very simple and easy for your users and give them exactly what they want from a restaurant website: A menu, a phone number, an address and possibly a nice logo and easy to read text. You don’t really need anything else. If you have any questions give me a call or better yet contact your web designer and get this all sorted out. Ask for a simple one page informational website. It will help your business rather than hurt it. You’ll thank me later.
And stop torturing your customers! I know you’re one of the most personable restaurants I’ve ever had the joy of eating in, that should show up in spades through your website too.
