At this point in time, I'm not sure if I have much of an audience with this blog. It is not something I post to often, but when I do I try to make it an interesting and helpful post. I've worked in the technical field for over 20 years and in that time I've never lost a job. To be honest, I just turned 45 and have been working since I was 15 and can honestly say that I have never lost a job. I lost my job this year.
It is a new experience for me. I am lucky at the moment in that my former employer was willing to pay me through the end of 2010, but it's not helpful when jobs seem to be scarce. I've even applied for every entry level position that is out there, but it appears that I am competing with college aged kids with no experience as well as others in my shoes.
To make matters worse, some of the review processes seem to take a long time. I've interviewed with one group early in October and as of now they are still deciding who they are going to hire. That seems to be the case for job hunting these days - very long internal review processes, no notifications on if you were denied the position, and so on. When I was looking for work some 20+ years ago you always got a letter telling you that you were not an acceptable candidate for a position. Now, you just never hear anything when you apply for a job.
I understand the frustration that job hunters have. I have twins that will be 2 years old soon and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Nothing technical about this. If I have to sweep floors, stock shelves in the night someplace or beg on the street, I'll do what I need to do in order to see that my family is fed.
Let's hope I find a technical job soon. I've been doing this a long time and really can't think of anything else to do. But you do what you do in order to survive. I promise my next post will actually be about a technical subject.
-Thanks, David
If it's tech related...I'll post it here. Lotus Notes/Domino, AS400 or iSeries, PC's, PDA's, iPods, Android -- Whatever.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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