How’s the IT Job Market?

[anxvariety]

Thanks for the responses.

I would try and work with/network with some of my old associates but I’m in a different state now(literally).. if they would have allowed some flexibility as far as telecommuting I’d probably still work there to begin with.

I guess I’m underestimating the difficulty in growing roots in a completely new city/state.

I had an interview for a small contract recently and they sent me these 5 questions about ”how do you feel when you code” etc, lame stuff. So I replied back and said not interested. They called back and said OK nevermind, you can start tomorrow.

I guess I just became disillusioned through using Dice and Craigslist lately – but I’m glad to hear you all confirm that those sites are playing some game/resume farming.

Thanks again for the advice and recommendations.

[GH]

I am a well seasoned developer and have been out of work since late October when the company I worked for lost their funding. The job market here in San Diego is pretty bad from where I stand, and I have boadened my search to include Orange County. What I am seeing at least in the C#/Sql Server etc … World, a handful of positions are chasing a large number of well qualified applicants.

That said, at what point in American history did we wake up and expect someone to provide us with a $60 an hour mindless Read Write Update Delete job? Was America not built on innovation and creativity? I sort of like being out of work for now, at least until my money runs out, which I will eventually if I do not take evasive action…

My $0.02

[GH]

I am a well seasoned developer and have been out of work since late October when the company I worked for lost their funding. The job market here in San Diego is pretty bad from where I stand, and I have boadened my search to include Orange County. What I am seeing at least in the C#/Sql Server etc … World, a handful of positions are chasing a large number of well qualified applicants.

That said, at what point in American history did we wake up and expect someone to provide us with a $60 an hour mindless Read Write Update Delete job? Was America not built on innovation and creativity? I sort of like being out of work for now, at least until my money runs out, which I will eventually if I do not take evasive action…

My $0.02

[GH]

I am a well seasoned developer and have been out of work since late October when the company I worked for lost their funding. The job market here in San Diego is pretty bad from where I stand, and I have boadened my search to include Orange County. What I am seeing at least in the C#/Sql Server etc … World, a handful of positions are chasing a large number of well qualified applicants.

That said, at what point in American history did we wake up and expect someone to provide us with a $60 an hour mindless Read Write Update Delete job? Was America not built on innovation and creativity? I sort of like being out of work for now, at least until my money runs out, which I will eventually if I do not take evasive action…

My $0.02

[GH]

I am a well seasoned developer and have been out of work since late October when the company I worked for lost their funding. The job market here in San Diego is pretty bad from where I stand, and I have boadened my search to include Orange County. What I am seeing at least in the C#/Sql Server etc … World, a handful of positions are chasing a large number of well qualified applicants.

That said, at what point in American history did we wake up and expect someone to provide us with a $60 an hour mindless Read Write Update Delete job? Was America not built on innovation and creativity? I sort of like being out of work for now, at least until my money runs out, which I will eventually if I do not take evasive action…

My $0.02

[GH]

I am a well seasoned developer and have been out of work since late October when the company I worked for lost their funding. The job market here in San Diego is pretty bad from where I stand, and I have boadened my search to include Orange County. What I am seeing at least in the C#/Sql Server etc … World, a handful of positions are chasing a large number of well qualified applicants.

That said, at what point in American history did we wake up and expect someone to provide us with a $60 an hour mindless Read Write Update Delete job? Was America not built on innovation and creativity? I sort of like being out of work for now, at least until my money runs out, which I will eventually if I do not take evasive action…

My $0.02

[UCGal]

I’m a little curious – people seem to be using “programmer”, Engineer, and IT developer interchangeably. I guess that throws me for a loop since I’m a software programmer of the embedded type. (definitely not IT.)

My brother did IT in Colorado. Managed webfarms for the federal government, developed dba and enterprise apps for the state of Wyoming. Jobs were definitely tightening up when he exited the workforce due to terminal illness. What he did and what I do were so completely different. Even though we both called ourselves software engineers. He never had to write a device driver… never had to worry about stack overflows… memory management was a non-issue in his work.

[UCGal]

I’m a little curious – people seem to be using “programmer”, Engineer, and IT developer interchangeably. I guess that throws me for a loop since I’m a software programmer of the embedded type. (definitely not IT.)

My brother did IT in Colorado. Managed webfarms for the federal government, developed dba and enterprise apps for the state of Wyoming. Jobs were definitely tightening up when he exited the workforce due to terminal illness. What he did and what I do were so completely different. Even though we both called ourselves software engineers. He never had to write a device driver… never had to worry about stack overflows… memory management was a non-issue in his work.

[UCGal]

I’m a little curious – people seem to be using “programmer”, Engineer, and IT developer interchangeably. I guess that throws me for a loop since I’m a software programmer of the embedded type. (definitely not IT.)

My brother did IT in Colorado. Managed webfarms for the federal government, developed dba and enterprise apps for the state of Wyoming. Jobs were definitely tightening up when he exited the workforce due to terminal illness. What he did and what I do were so completely different. Even though we both called ourselves software engineers. He never had to write a device driver… never had to worry about stack overflows… memory management was a non-issue in his work.

[UCGal]

I’m a little curious – people seem to be using “programmer”, Engineer, and IT developer interchangeably. I guess that throws me for a loop since I’m a software programmer of the embedded type. (definitely not IT.)

My brother did IT in Colorado. Managed webfarms for the federal government, developed dba and enterprise apps for the state of Wyoming. Jobs were definitely tightening up when he exited the workforce due to terminal illness. What he did and what I do were so completely different. Even though we both called ourselves software engineers. He never had to write a device driver… never had to worry about stack overflows… memory management was a non-issue in his work.

[UCGal]

I’m a little curious – people seem to be using “programmer”, Engineer, and IT developer interchangeably. I guess that throws me for a loop since I’m a software programmer of the embedded type. (definitely not IT.)

My brother did IT in Colorado. Managed webfarms for the federal government, developed dba and enterprise apps for the state of Wyoming. Jobs were definitely tightening up when he exited the workforce due to terminal illness. What he did and what I do were so completely different. Even though we both called ourselves software engineers. He never had to write a device driver… never had to worry about stack overflows… memory management was a non-issue in his work.

[sdduuuude]

Anx – even if you are in another state, try those old bosses anyway. They may be happy to hear from you and people know people all over. I know several people in Denver in my industry and I’m in SD. In fact, I may even need a perl person in a few months there.

If you are really in the top 20% (and I have no reason to belieive you aren’t), people are happy to help and hear from you. Even 1 introduction to someone to have lunch with gives you a boost, even if they aren’t hiring or even if they are in the wrong industry.

[sdduuuude]

Anx – even if you are in another state, try those old bosses anyway. They may be happy to hear from you and people know people all over. I know several people in Denver in my industry and I’m in SD. In fact, I may even need a perl person in a few months there.

If you are really in the top 20% (and I have no reason to belieive you aren’t), people are happy to help and hear from you. Even 1 introduction to someone to have lunch with gives you a boost, even if they aren’t hiring or even if they are in the wrong industry.

[sdduuuude]

Anx – even if you are in another state, try those old bosses anyway. They may be happy to hear from you and people know people all over. I know several people in Denver in my industry and I’m in SD. In fact, I may even need a perl person in a few months there.

If you are really in the top 20% (and I have no reason to belieive you aren’t), people are happy to help and hear from you. Even 1 introduction to someone to have lunch with gives you a boost, even if they aren’t hiring or even if they are in the wrong industry.

[sdduuuude]

Anx – even if you are in another state, try those old bosses anyway. They may be happy to hear from you and people know people all over. I know several people in Denver in my industry and I’m in SD. In fact, I may even need a perl person in a few months there.

If you are really in the top 20% (and I have no reason to belieive you aren’t), people are happy to help and hear from you. Even 1 introduction to someone to have lunch with gives you a boost, even if they aren’t hiring or even if they are in the wrong industry.

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