[TriLUG] Employed/Unemployed Poll
Chris Bullock
cgbullock at cox.net
Fri Jun 13 21:53:55 EDT 2003
I fortunately am employed, but I am, and will probably always look to better
my career. I have been on some interviews over the past few months with
little luck. I have been targeting the IT field in the healthcare arena. My
interviews have stretched from eastern NC to the triangle. Mostly with very
large employers >5000 employees. Although, I consider myself competent in a
wide diversity of IT, most large non-IT based companies are looking for the
paper employees. Everyone now is buying their products ready-made with a
support contract that a monkey could administer. I really think that is
where are the jobs are going. Why hire programmers if I can buy something
off the shelf that I just load and it works?
Most of the companies I have spoken to rely strongly on the big names, Cisco,
Microsoft, and Oracle. And unless you are VERY proficient in one of these
fields there is a line at the door waiting for the same interview. From what
I have seen most companies see a name and say "hey, their big, been around a
long time, so they must be good." They also want paper proof that you can do
the job..ie..MCSE, CCNP, CNA. The best IT professionals I know have had
little or no formal education in the IT field. These are the people who
desire to learn because they like what they do, not just to get a job. But,
business managers do not realize this and hire John Q MCSE (no offense to
MCSEs) and then the manager complains when the IT budget hits 7 digits.
My $.02
chris
On Friday 13 June 2003 08:30 pm, Philip Buckley wrote:
> Judging from the outpouring from the list the last couple of days it sounds
> like finding a full time job right off the bat down there may be a problem
> for me. It got me thinking about getting together a loose confederation of
> people who could work as a sort of distributed contracting type company. I
> have something like that up here right now, a designer, a couple of
> developers, a network guy, a security guy and one guy that basically throws
> us his overflow.
>
> Anyone who might be interested in something like that let me know, maybe
> there is more work and leads then first appears. I've found that having 3
> or 4 other people to bounce ideas off of and work with somehow makes me a
> better worker/producer.
>
> Phil
>
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 6/13/2003 at 7:05 PM Jill wrote:
> >count me on the "out of work" side ...
> >
> >jill
> >
> >On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:30, Philip Buckley wrote:
> >> Just wondering how many people out here on the list are currently out of
> >
> >work?
> >
> >> Phil
> >>
> >>
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