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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. 

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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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