[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

[Tim Jowers]

FWIW, take a look at the website of the company where I work in
Charlotte. We really need a good Performance Engineer and have several
other jobs around the country. We are fairly stable as we have
operations in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well plus some of our
products are actually even more important in recession times I'm told.
BTW, I can tell you more and maybe get a referral too. :-)
http://www.s1.com/

We also need rock star Java programmers but those are really hard to
find at even very good pay. There are, however, tons of
fog-the-mirror, seat-warmer programmers.

Best luck to all. My advice is to enjoy some vacation time and find a
job you enjoy. Sometimes "the next job" might be better passed on and
you should wait for a "better job/better company",
Tim Jowers

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I sold back the rest of my vacation and moved from salary to hourly.
> This "should"
> offset the recent pay cut. Unfortunately, Christmas with the
> grandparents won't happen
> this year and the kids are bummed. The recent economic mess has made my scar
> from 2001 start hurting again. Hope everyone gets through this one OK.
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Jason Evans <jason.s.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I got my pink slip in August, but rather than waiting out my time for
>> my 2 weeks of severance, I found a new job almost immediately.  At the
>> end of my fourth week at the new job, I was given the pink slip again
>> and half of my department was shown out the door on Oct 17.  Anybody
>> need a linux saavy help desk guy with tons of experience?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:43 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> or '00.
>>>
>>> I got the walking papers from my first job out of college after 5 months
>>> on the job... 2 weeks before Christmas.  Thank you net32 for a lesson in
>>> job searching skills.
>>>
>>> It doesn't help anyone who just got cut if I say it now, but I learned
>>> very quickly how important it is to have savings on hand.  One of my
>>> former co-workers, also in his first big-money job, had loaded up on
>>> expensive Christmas gifts for his family and friends--on credit.
>>>
>>> William Sutton
>>> (grateful to be working on a government contract)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Greg Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Anyone who calls IT "recession proof" wasn't alive in 2001-2002.
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Amen... *SHIVER*
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