Well with the Indians (with a dot) flooding the market and the Russians and
Chinese and Uzbekistan's and the like offering programming services for $2
per day, is it any wonder?  The programming world sucks.  Whatever is once
was is no more, unless you have a nice little niche and are invisible to
upper management; then I give you a few more years.  

I have been learning the web technologies, PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript,
Flash etc., and the contracts and jobs I see there pay miniscule amounts.   
Plus there are tons more programmers in the world who can do them so the
competition is incredible.  

I don't know who to blame for all this, Republicans, Democrats, they are all
alike, they don't care.  The only job I see as 100% safe is that of a US
senator: A lawyer making laws that affect everyone else, but not them.  Even
beats a president because you can stay there forever.  

Just my rant, please forgive me.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Brian Donaldson
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:37 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Miller Compressing Opportunity - Programmer/Analyst

<<snip>>

How can you, along with several other programmers who've posted a recent 
note asking for a job, be unemployed? I have seen over a dozen HP3K 
programmer jobs out on monster and careerbuilder lately. 

>>

Are you serious? These so-called HP3000 job "opportunities" are just a ruse.

I've been down the Monster.Com road. It's useless.

These companies may advertise for "HP3000 skills" but they are *not* wanting

HP3000 skills primarily -- they want VB, SQL, C#, whatever, whatever, so on 
and so on. The HP3000 skill set is secondary to these PC oriented skills
which 
is what they are really looking for.

You can have 3000 years of HP3000 experience but you are *not* getting the 
job if you don't have these PC skills which they are really looking for.

My original posting was not a dig at this company up in WI, but at all of
these 
companies in general.

Moreover, most of them are in snow, fog and ice environments and they are 
not offering much/sufficient in salary or relocation costs as an incentive
to 
make it worthwhile to relocate there. 

I have also noticed that most of these "opportunities" are short term
contracts 
and do not offer anything stable at all. Especially, the dinky little
companies 
who will fire you for any reason at a moments notice and not even blink.

Been there, done that. Never again.

Gotta win that lottery......

Brian Donaldson.

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