Going insane. Job market here sucks the big fat donkey dick and every "perfect opportunity" for my skillset and background is at least 2 or 3 steps backwards from where I was.
My biggest problem is boredom. Bills are getting paid. Still going out with friends once or twice a week. Still going for rides when I am not scouring the job postings.
But the responses I get for jobs I am easily qualified for seem to be, "We are hiring...just not you."
I am getting frustrated and am beginning to consider a more agressive job search outside of my area. But I have no idea what the tech job market is like elsewhere in the US.
To be honest, I am seriously considering crab fishing deckhand as an option just to say I did something few others can say they tried.
FML
I'd find an area of the country that you are interested in living and start your search there.
Talk to IZ.........he seems to always be on a month to month apartment lease..........in different states
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Good Luck if you want to pursue being a Greenhorn.
If you have enough saved up and don't own a place, ever thought of putting your stuff in storage and moving to a Caribbean Island for a year or two and getting some bullshit type job to pay the bills there?
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38456.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38456.0) ?
Sorry to hear about your troubles - you are indeed woe. But, hey, not too woe. You get to drink and ride and spend unlimited time on your favorite moto forum. Your situation could be worse, but I totally understand the frustration of being in limbo.
When I was younger (and singler and without kidser), I had an offer to go work in Antarctica. My dad's friend had done nine months at McMurdo and said it was not exactly fun but an experience he would not forget. I thought about it for a while, then got a much more boring job that was the start of my career.
In a way I regret not taking it - at this stage in my life it is the type of thing I would jump at if I was less fortunate career and family-wise. So, aside from me waxing nostalgic, take this as encouragement to take lemons and make some really exotic, possibly hazardous lemon-based drink out of it. Crab boat, IT job in some remote corner of the world. In any case, best of luck [thumbsup] What is your field by the way? Do you write code?
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/employment/howtoapply.shtml (http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/employment/howtoapply.shtml)
Boy, I can feel the love..."We want you to move to Antarctica..." [cheeky]
I am not a software dev although I wish I had been.
I am primarily a damned good Network Admin/Systems Admin/Security Analyst
www.usajobs.gov (//http://)
there are bonuses for IT
Email sent.
The Portland area has tons of tech businesses, Beaverton in particular is saturated in techies. I don't know what the job market looks like but I've heard Portland is where to look.
Plus, well, we rock ovah heah.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on July 06, 2010, 11:39:02 AM
Talk to IZ.........he seems to always be on a month to month apartment lease..........in different states
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Haha!! [cheeky]
Just moved twice in two WEEKS time!
That was the suck in 105*+ heat!!
PM me Z.
Quote from: IZ on July 11, 2010, 10:36:08 PM
Just moved twice in two WEEKS time!
Dude WTF?
Quote from: kopfjäger on July 11, 2010, 10:51:01 PM
Dude WTF?
WTF is right!
Moved out of townhome in PHX to a friend's empty house (20 miles away) to stage it for him until it sold. We figured we could stay in it for a couple months at least. I didn't even pull the moving truck out of the driveway..after completely unloading it..before a buyer put in a contract.
So..we stayed there for just over a week before moving back to the previous place.
Yeah, I think that whole thing made me really hate moving anymore! [cheeky]
I spent a year in Antarctica. (Oct 99 to Oct 00) In fact my nym is for 77 degrees south latitude where McMurdo station is located. It was an amazing experience. Some of my best memories come from that year. I fixed computers and did cabling for ethernet, fiber optic, telephone and cable tv. Some of the most interesting people I ever met were there. I met smokejumpers, underwater welders, former green berets, you name it. If it was an adventure job, someone down there had done it. The scenery on clear days is breathtaking. The working conditions were messed up, 54 hours a week with no overtime, and a HR department so capricious as to be sociopathic. I think the only two days off were christmas and the 4th of July (maybe thanksgiving I don't recall)
Winter was a special new kind of horrible, 4.5 months of darkness, cold, isolation and loneliness. But the southern lights almost made up for it. if you have the desire and the time, I recommend going. It will change your life.
did you see 'The Thing' :o
the IT sector in DC is growing again FWIW!!!...if you have a security clearance of anykind...you can almost pretty much guarantee that you will be able to get a job.
The Wife has been doing Eye-Tee in DC for over 15 years! Send me a resume and Ill pass it on.
I saw The Thing. It is tradition on the day the last plane leaves for the winter, a bunch of the winter-overs gather in the coffee shop and watch that movie.
What does one do about Chicks down there?
Quote from: rgramjet on July 14, 2010, 11:17:57 AM
What does one do about Chicks down there?
antarctica.craigslist.com
Quote from: rgramjet on July 14, 2010, 11:17:57 AM
What does one do about Chicks down there?
Line forms to the left.
Quote from: zooom on July 14, 2010, 08:28:46 AM
the IT sector in DC is growing again FWIW!!!...if you have a security clearance of anykind...you can almost pretty much guarantee that you will be able to get a job.
What if you're on the 'other' list? [evil]
chicks. well, you don't go to Antarctica to meet women. The women that do go are in one of 3 categories. 1. fantastic athletic and adventurous. 2. varying combinations of nutty/and or otherwise unattractive or 3. taken. The final ratio of of single guys to women in category 1 was like 15 to 1. and after like 3 weeks the ratio leveled off at like 600 or 700 to 0. So unless you can out-compete 14 other guys for every women, you will have a lonely contract period. I had a lonely contract period.