Searching through job postings on a Government Web site for a government job, I stumbled upon this description of what it takes to be qualified for the position:

Candidates (must) meet the Qualification Standards Handbook requirements for GS-301-13. This requires at least 1 year of specialized experience equivalentin(sic) responsibility to the GS-12 level in the Federal service that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of this position......Federal status candidates must also meet the time-in-grade requirements of having been at the GS-12 level for at least 1 year.

Guess I don't qualify.

And here's another fun thing I'm discovering about looking for work, that a lot of jobs are asking for writing samples. Fine. No big deal. Don't think this'll quite qualify, though.

I do, however, have official type stuff, stuff actually sent out and used on Web sites, including a wonderful Introduction to Judaism. The problem, however, is that they don't exist anywhere anymore. They've all been lost along with the Web sites I was working on. Another peril of doing the dot.com thing.

Wonder how many other people are in the same boat? Having wonderful samples that they could use but unable to use them anymore because they've disapeared into the nether regions of failed dot.com. I know, I could of backed them up, or kept copies of them, or taken .pdf files of them, but way back when, nobody thought that way. We all thought the sites would last forever and our stuff would be up on cyberspace til the sun finally exploded or that asteriod they're always warning us about finally hits.

But no.