One down, how many to go?

Post #4,751 by ben_tilly 8/12/01 2:30:27 PM Reply	One down, how many to go? As someone who expects to be on the job market in under a year (when I move from New York City to ???) I am a little scared at how long you guys are taking to find a job... BTW a note. For all of Karsten's protestations, he isn't desperate enough yet. I forwarded him some spam from a place in Palo Alto looking for NT admins, and he declined them... Cheers, Ben
Post #4,762 by admin 8/12/01 5:41:44 PM Reply	How long it takes... ... depends on how long you wait before you start looking, as well. :-) I've been out of work for 3.5 months; I started looking 1.5 months ago, and I'm extremely picky. I only interviewed with two places and both of them extended offers. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #4,914 by addison 8/13/01 4:53:15 PM Reply	Ooooooh. and I'm extremely picky That's the politically correct term for that now? :) Addison
Post #4,935 by admin 8/13/01 6:34:44 PM Reply	Heh. No, that's the correct term... ;-) Regards, -scott anderson
Post #4,915 by addison 8/13/01 4:55:49 PM Reply	Well, I suspect you won't be long on the market, either. At least, you should have a lot of offers, from lots of places that have lots of Perl code around. And if you don't try and strangle too many of the coders who left it that way.... :) I've started getting calls again... so apparently the UNIX admins have dried up around RTP - and they're going DEEP into Monster's resume's and getting mine. (Which won't directly help you, unless you want to give up that Perl junk and come over to the Dark Side). But in a year, I expect a lot of things will be picking back up. (Or really far down, of course). But this massive overcorrection to the market I don't think taught the right people the right lessons... Addison
Post #4,941 by tuberculosis 8/13/01 7:08:45 PM Reply	Hiring freeze ice age Its still pretty lean out there. I've been trying to get back to Denver for the last couple months (for personal reasons and I'm sick of dogtown here). I can't find any gigs at my level. But I think there are cracks forming in the ice and I'm hearing rumors of things warming up a bit.
Post #4,971 by Yendor 8/13/01 10:29:21 PM Reply	Nah.... But I think there are cracks forming in the ice and I'm hearing rumors of things warming up a bit. ...That's just the arrival of spring to the Rockies. -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #4,974 by Ashton 8/13/01 10:42:22 PM Reply	Liked that JFKism too.. May even have a poster somewhere with sl. different wording. Nice idea til the sloganeers made it as tawdry as Coke VS Pepsi :[ We have no shame. A.
Post #5,003 by Yendor 8/14/01 12:28:08 AM Reply	:) Got it from the AIDSRide booklet that arrived before last month's Ride. It had little sayings like that sprinkled throughout. They also had signs made up sprinkled throughout the campsite and pit stops along the route with other similar sayings. One of my favorites is: "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willie Wonka I think I'll be randomizing my .sig with some of these AIDSRide-isms over the course of the year, as I approach next year's adventure. And I know I still owe the group an update/recap of the event. I'm working on it. Suffice to say, it's damn hard to put down in words what I experienced. It'll come soon enough. :) -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #5,005 by Ashton 8/14/01 12:38:31 AM Reply	Nice. PPS - RFK used that in his campaign too ~ "Some people look at things and ask, 'why?' Others dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'."
Post #5,546 by gdaustin 8/17/01 12:17:00 AM Reply	Re: Hiring freeze ice age You might try Wells Fargo Bank in Colorado Springs, if you're willing to do the commute from Denver area. I worked on a Tuxedo project from Dallas, but the manager was in the Springs. Also try Fedex in the Springs, Galileo (who I think was just bought by Cendant?), and BEA also has some programming/engineering offices in the Denver/CS area. Good Luck. Glen Austin
Post #6,220 by tablizer 8/22/01 2:01:12 AM Reply	Theory: Most jobs are where the weather stinks People tend to migrate toward places with the better weather. Since tech workers tend to be more mobile, they are more likely to pick the better weather spots. This thus results in openings in places where the sun does not shine until the snow melts directly into humidity without a middleman. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #6,269 by boxley 8/22/01 9:47:33 AM Reply	www.computerwork.com did quick search on foxpro 3 CA jobs, several pages of jobs elsewhere. thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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