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Career Restart
“I won’t think the economy is getting better until I have a 60-hour work week again,” says T.J. Sims. Sims, an R&D hardware engineer, has been looking for a new gig since January 2009. She had been with Accuray in Sunnyvale since its startup days. After 10 years, she was pulled out of a meeting and told she would have to leave that day. Sims has signed up with ProMatch, a career resource center for Silicon Valley professionals. She spends six hours a day job hunting. “I think what I miss most about Accuray is working. I really enjoy working.” Diane Soloman, March 10, 2010
Asian Visions
Local director Quentin Lee’s The People I’ve Slept With—produced by 408 Films, a consortium of investors based in Silicon Valley—has a spicy title to conceal a pitiless bait-and-switch trick. Angela has a problem, and it’s not that she’s gotta have it, but rather that she’s gestating. And she’s been so eager in the beaver that she can’t remember who impregnated her. The twin morals: first, babies are the greatest, planned or unplanned, they really firm up your life. Second, people with epicanthic folds like to have crazy sex too. As for the first, we get it rather a lot. As for the latter: I’m sorry, Annabel Chong, you labored in vain. Richard von Busack, March 17, 2010
