Unemployment Sucks
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
Yup, lost my job in mid-october and ain't had many prospects since. A year or two ago there were jobs aplenty. I haven't written much code since either but I have been doing a lot of web design and reading new stuff. How does one look for a new software development job nowadays? Is emailing resumes to all the openings on Dice.com and monster.com the only way to go? It's been quite frustrating in that I know I am qualified for the jobs that I have been applying for yet I dont even get acknowledgment that my resume has been received. Damn those HR drones, DAMN THEM!!!! Anyways, hopefully companies will get more money in their budgets this year and start hiring again. Happy New Year!!! Josh Knox that-guy.net
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
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Yup, lost my job in mid-october and ain't had many prospects since. A year or two ago there were jobs aplenty. I haven't written much code since either but I have been doing a lot of web design and reading new stuff. How does one look for a new software development job nowadays? Is emailing resumes to all the openings on Dice.com and monster.com the only way to go? It's been quite frustrating in that I know I am qualified for the jobs that I have been applying for yet I dont even get acknowledgment that my resume has been received. Damn those HR drones, DAMN THEM!!!! Anyways, hopefully companies will get more money in their budgets this year and start hiring again. Happy New Year!!! Josh Knox that-guy.net
Josh Knox wrote: Is emailing resumes to all the openings on Dice.com and monster.com the only way to go? That's what I've been doing. I hate it too. I've applied for all kinds of stuff with new response. Happy New Year too. Nice website btw. Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
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I heard about that, Jason. I'm really sorry about your predicament. (But not sorry about our former company!! I hope those people rot!) I've had my ear out for you, but there's nothing on the radar. -John
Thanks John. TPI is doing pay cuts on the remaining employees. And requiring mandatory vacation usage to avoid rollover, and having to pay it when they let people go too I guess. Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
I am not sure whether it is a real pattern, but it appears to me that many companies are firing the staff regardless of whether the company has financial difficulties or not. It's as they are using the situation to lay off the people... Anybody else have seen that?
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
At least, if you're your own boss you have some advantages: 1. Your boss is a great guy and a good friend 2. You are never unemployed 3. You can choose what you'll do 4. You can choose any programming language you want Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
Why not use this time to update your skill set? If I had that much time off I'd be learning several new languages.
Todd Smith
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
check this out http://asktheheadhunter.com/crocs.htm He thinks Dice is worthless. (he also thinks resumes are next to worthless, believe it or not. That hasn't been my experience.)
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Josh Knox wrote: Is emailing resumes to all the openings on Dice.com and monster.com the only way to go? That's what I've been doing. I hate it too. I've applied for all kinds of stuff with new response. Happy New Year too. Nice website btw. Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
Just for reference, I spent about 2 and a half months unemployed this year as well. Did the emailing of resumes from various job sites with little to no reponse. Finally got an interview and hired by a company at the beginning of December, the only company that responded by the way. The HR person and manager that I now work for said they received well over 500 resumes from their online posting for a single job! In that kind of deluge it's pretty hard to get noticed. You might try following up and not just emailing your resume. You could call them and ask to talk to HR, you could fax and snail mail your resume. You could get really bold and just show up at the company with resume in hand (I did that once in the past)! Anything you can do to just get noticed in the current job market will hopefully give you at least a little edge. Good Luck!
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
Jason Gerard wrote: I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. That's REALLY frightening. Why aren't you coding ? This is a great opportunity to learn something new, and surely there's no better time to be padding out what you can put on your resume. If you want to stand out, why not buy some credit card sized CDR's, and put some examples of your code and so on onto them to send out with resumes ? Don't put any executables, only an idiot would run them, and you don't want to work for an idiot, do you ? Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001
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I live in Bob's HungOut now
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Jason Gerard wrote: I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. That's REALLY frightening. Why aren't you coding ? This is a great opportunity to learn something new, and surely there's no better time to be padding out what you can put on your resume. If you want to stand out, why not buy some credit card sized CDR's, and put some examples of your code and so on onto them to send out with resumes ? Don't put any executables, only an idiot would run them, and you don't want to work for an idiot, do you ? Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001
Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOz
I live in Bob's HungOut now
You guys could always try www.rentacoder.com
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
Yea, I was unemployed for about a month. The job I have now is really a gift from god, rather than my own doing (I sent my resume to one company, an engineer saw it and though it would be a good match for a unadvertised position at a company he moonlights with, so he forwarded it over to them). I went to two tech-expo job fairs. What a joke. I never made it in the door for the first one (waited three hours in a line that stretched almost around a city block). At the second one I waited four hours to talk with three recruters. There programming jobs around, but they are well hidden. For example, the biotech industry needs SAS programmers and Oracle DBAs / programmers for setting up clinical databases, but most of those jobs are filled by word of mouth. I would start asking around to see if their are any unadvertised job positions, and I would be willing to take just about anything, as long as it got my foot in the door. Good luck on you job search.
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Well, the employment gods have unleashed their wrath upon me. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. I haven't written a single line of code since that day. It's quite frightening. I hope I won't lose my edge before I find a job in this lovely new economy we have. Anyone else felt the wrath? Jason Gerard, Unemployed Master of Kung Foo
That does suck. Sorry to hear about it. The same thing happened to me this year, except I called it a "sabbatical" and spent 3 months at the coast -- coming back to JHB just in time for TechEd Africa 2001. If you've got the cash, then make it count in terms of learning new stuff and making the next killer app. Hey CPians - Jason is making the next killer app. ;P ;P ;P There'll be a job that comes around for you, just don't do what I did and take an arb. job because you think that there won't be another one. Simon "...Bill is watching..." "An object is simply a referenced thingy" ... Programming Perl, by Larry Wall
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Yup, lost my job in mid-october and ain't had many prospects since. A year or two ago there were jobs aplenty. I haven't written much code since either but I have been doing a lot of web design and reading new stuff. How does one look for a new software development job nowadays? Is emailing resumes to all the openings on Dice.com and monster.com the only way to go? It's been quite frustrating in that I know I am qualified for the jobs that I have been applying for yet I dont even get acknowledgment that my resume has been received. Damn those HR drones, DAMN THEM!!!! Anyways, hopefully companies will get more money in their budgets this year and start hiring again. Happy New Year!!! Josh Knox that-guy.net
Hang in there, Josh. I got laid off in '92 and never did find work again in my field. "Overqualified" is a word I never want to hear again! For three years I sent resumes and made phone calls. I even applied for a job fixing water meters, but they wouldn't hire me because they thought I'd leave right away. Worse yet, since I was technically a 'contract officer' for the Air Force, the companies most interested in me couldn't legally talk to me for two years, by which time I was considered obsolete (bunk)! At least your skills are current, and I think you can look forward to more opportunities to use them in the near future. Good Luck!