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[Michael]

They seem to have yet to grasp that finding jobs right now is rather hard
so they still act like as soon as we're hired we'll split if we're
overqualified. Right now I'd work for a third of what I would have been
making a couple years ago but still can't find anything.

The recruiters ask for impossible things too. For a job that pays $8.50 an
hour they want someone with 15 years of Linux and Java experience.  First
off how would 15 years of experience be possible? I have been using Linux
for at least 7 years and that is about as far as anyone can use it.  I
don't remember the exact release of the original Linux but wasn't that
like only 10 years ago or something? Java is even younger. Then if you
could find someone that had been using Linux and Java from before they
existed would they really be working for $8.50/hr? Probably not.

Or web dev jobs that want a degree. I mean honestly how does a degree help
you in web development? I've worked at a couple different colleges and
answer questions for people from a lot more and none of them seem to have
very good web dev classes. I've even seen web ev jobs that required
masters degrees. That just drives me nuts.

> Yeah, me too!  It really bites when you go for a job interview and
> instead of just looking to see if you are qualified, they get all hung
> up becasue I am over qualified.
>
> Gee, thanks for looking out for my carreer, but if I wanted to do what I
> did in my last job, I would go work for IBM in Atlanta or where ever
> that office is that handles that particular micro-specialty.  I/T is
> supposed to be a dynamic industry, why can't the employee's be dynamic
> too???  Perhaps I WANT to take a step back and take my career in a
> different direction because the niche I was in REALLY SUCKED!!!
>
> Sheesh!  If I didn't want the job I was interviewing for - I would be
> out playing Pool or riding the bike!
>
> Note to petential interviewers:  Over qualified means having MORE
> QUALIFICATIONS than what is required to do the job.  It does NOT mean
> 'unable to do the job'!
>
> If I bring more skills to the job than a minty-fresh MSCE right out of
> school, that's my problem.  Pay me what the job is worth and I will
> decide if I want to do it.  That is the cool thing about experience.  It
> means I know how to do a lot of cool things, and can choose to do what I
> like to do.