I must have sent out more than a hundred resumes since I got here, the vast majority got no response at all.
Yesterday I sent one in response to an ad that appeared only minutes before on Craigslist.
Finally, I got a response: they said that they had no jobs available.
Huh?
I swear, judging from my job search here, you’d think that I had 2 months experience in my line of work rather than 20 years.
“Miniter’s account of the intelligence that led to bin Laden and the decision-making surrounding the operation that killed him is a pile of poppycock served up with heaps of hogwash.”
I never noticed before – the flooring design at San Jose airport is like traces on a huge integrated circuit.
I just realized that sometimes I write much better, more insightful, and just plain funnier prose when commenting on other people’s blogs, rather than the entries on my own.
Gene, I hate to say this, but I’m only being a realist: it took me 15 months to find a full-time position, and I am very skilled. When I re-entered the job market in Nov. 2002 after staying home for 8 years to raise my kids, I got a job that I hated. Well, the boss didn’t like me either and we parted ways in Feb. 2003.
I started looking for another full time in
Feb. 2003 and got on with my current company full time in April 2004.
Similarly, after my dot-com job went south in October 2001, it took me ten months to find my current position with the feds, at a 20% reduction in pay (though somewhat offset by working many fewer, less insane hours), despite twenty-plus years of experience in management, communications and a range of computer and Internet technologies, and an Ivy diploma, even in the DC Metro area, which continued to have relatively high rates of employment after the bust.
That’s also why I already started looking for jobs in California back at the beginning of this year, even though we weren’t planning to move until sometime next.