Ric Tibbetts said: > > So far, I've never had to resort to using the phrase "Would you like fries > with that?" in the course of my work day. But when you need to feed the > family, don't get too picky when the market is like it is now.
I haven't either and won't for a while luckily. But even that job market is in the shitter these days. My sister(21) has lived with me for a year and a half now, and it took her 2 months of searching to get a GRAVEYARD shift as a waitress at denny's. And even after she got hired she isn't full time, pending their expected pickup in business. Once/if business picks up then she'll get put on full time. And even if it wasn't in the shitter, I know people who've been unemployed for more then 2 years, the bad part is their skills are right in the middle, they are typically underqualified for half of the positions or overqualified for the other half. I hear more and more people saying they're getting responses from employers that they are overqualified for a certain position. seattle may be in the pits, but I suppose it could be worse..the upshot is I live in the center of a tech heavy district, there's one sysadmin job I want thats only 1.3 miles from my apartment, though haven't heard from them in 3 weeks(my last interview came 4 months after I applied so anything's possible). everyone says knowing people helps get jobs..wish that were the case for me, most of the people I know have been unemployed longer then I have. Though I know 2 people at a local company which I applied for 2 sysadmin jobs at on the weekend. Though I don't meet all of their qualifications(they want lots of SAN experience and big HP9000 experience), my friends there said they would trade me for 5 of the current sysadmins in a heartbeat, apparently the folk they have there aren't so hot :) I wish the Business Labor statistics site would update their stats (www.bls.gov) I am curious what the unemployment rates are for the various states(last I checked the last data was from 12/2002). nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
