A woe is me thread...

[ZLTFUL]

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

[cyrus buelton]

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




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?

[Popeye the Sailor]

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38456.0 ?

[il d00d]

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    What is your field by the way?  Do you write code?

[LMT]

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/employment/howtoapply.shtml

[ZLTFUL]

Boy, I can feel the love..."We want you to move to Antarctica..."   

I am not a software dev although I wish I had been.
I am primarily a damned good Network Admin/Systems Admin/Security Analyst

[Raux]

www.usajobs.gov

there are bonuses for IT

[Popeye the Sailor]

Email sent.

[Betty Rage]

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.

[IZ]

Talk to IZ.........he seems to always be on a month to month apartment lease..........in different states

Haha!! 

Just moved twice in two WEEKS time!

That was the suck in 105*+ heat!!

PM me Z. 

 

[Kopfjäger]

Just moved twice in two WEEKS time!

Dude WTF?

[IZ]

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!  

[77south]

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.

[Raux]

did you see 'The Thing' 

[zooom]

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.