What's wrong with the market?

[Michael Pratt]

"Companies don't like to hire the
unemployed, they'd rather hired away from another company."

Sorry I believe this one is not true.  IM CNA, MCSE, MCP, Soon to be MCSD,
and  Associates Degree in Programming  with 5+ years experience behind me.
Actively Looking for a new job. Since 9-11 Not even a BITE!

 Lets put it this way when we had a job opening for help desk we got over
1000 resumes within a few days.  Tells you how bad it is out there.
Experience matters but at this point when there are NO jobs it dont matter.

I have heard that the market will be starting to creep up here within the
next few months. Take that for what its worth. Its just my two cents.   ;)

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike neuliep" <mike at marauder.illiana.net>
To: "Duston, Hal" <hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: What's wrong with the market?

> ----- Message Text -----
> Heh I'll tell you what's wrong with the market:  I'm a highly certified
> and experienced network engineer and unix admin.  I have solaris admin
> cert, ccnp cert (working on ccie) and many other certs.  Combined with ten
> years experience I should in theory be employable just about anywhere
> within an IT organization.  In reality I've been out of work since
> January, only been on three interviews, everyone thought my salary
> expectations were too high at 60k/year when in fact at my previous job I
> was making closer to 80k/year.  Companies don't like to hire the
> unemployed, they'd rather hired away from another company.  The longer I'm
> out of work the more it is going to hurt me in the job search.  I am
> seriously starting to think this whole industry is for the birds.
>
> So at this point if someone calls and offers me a job, that's great, but I
> don't realistically expect to get an IT job this year in the industry.
>
> I'm changing careers to financial services.  I'm almost done with all my
> securities licensing and then I'll be an agent for Primerica Financial
> Services.  The all commission job is extremely tough, but the rewards are
> great and at least I can't get fired.  I'd be willing to show anyone here
> whom is interested in how to benefit from becoming an agent.
>
> If Primerica/Citigroup doesn't work out the way I envision it, which I
> doubt will happen, my back up plan is to go back to school to become a
> math teacher.  The pay would really suck, but at least I'll be making a
> difference in someone's life.
>
> I apologize for the rant, but the original person who had the nerve to ask
> what is wrong with the market really hit me hard.  I'm putting my house up
> for sale this month  because I only have so much savings to live off of
> before everything is gone.  I'm not going to apologize for using this list
> to further my own financial goals though considering I pay for all this
> out of my own pocket and will continue to do so even though I'm
> unemployed.  This I do because the LUG is important to me.
>
> Mike
>
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> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Duston, Hal wrote:
>
> > Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller at dslonramp.com] wrote:
> > > >BTW... what's wrong with the market?
> > >
> > > Anyone want to explore this question further?
> > > KC Star Careers section is down to four or five
> > > columns in Sunday paper for IT jobs.  Sad.
> > >
> > > -- Bradley Miller
> >
> > Tech workers face tough job market:
> > http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/3348343.htm
> >
> > Hal
> >
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> >
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