Edit: 2005.06.16 - This post was originally friends only. It was hidden so that my employer would not see that I was interviewing externally
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Thank you for the pointer!lordandreiMarch 31 2005, 22:42:10 UTC
I've been keeping my job search out of the public journal because the job situation is bad enough that letting them know you're even looking is enough to cause 'problems.'
Hopefully in the hour between posting and seeing your comment, not too much damage occured.
Re: Thank you for the pointer!kimberly_aMarch 31 2005, 22:44:53 UTC
You're welcome. :-) As soon as I saw the header and the lack of little lock symbol next to it, I quickly left the comment in hopes that you'd see it right away.
P.S., lest I be accused of racism in my previous comments, I'd like to point out that it's common knowledge of the makeup of the computer industry when it comes to ethnicity and gender. While the field IS diversifying, (a good thing as far as I'm concerned) it's still primarily white guys like you and I who are the people who have years of experience dealing with this stuff.
Out of 11 QA people at my office, I'm the only white guy. We have six women. Only one of them is white.
Society just doesn't support those numbers, and from experience I can tell you that a big portion of these people were hired for their genetics and not for their ability.
you are hunting on SOOO much higher of an octave than me.
Right now I am stuck by dam-ned migraines in the world of little-to-no expansion. Who needs a parttime [according to Monster] "Web Graphic Designer" when they can pay people who are trained to handle far more complex tasks to handle idiot proofing cross-platform design and section508 issues, or get some college design intern to do it for free. I am stuck against the wall of my migraines now -- the visual aura (24/7) often causes something akin to dislexia, and BOTH the migraines and the migraine prophylactic meds have been interfering with my new matter retention, so trying to broaden myself into real programming has been very slow at best. I am so obsolete, it has gone all the way to very unamusing and come full circle back to downright hilarious in a valium sort of way :-)
I wish you all the luck in the world with the employment hunt; wish me luck with finding the door in my migraine wall :-)
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Hopefully in the hour between posting and seeing your comment, not too much damage occured.
Thank you again, I really appreciate it. :)
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Out of 11 QA people at my office, I'm the only white guy. We have six women. Only one of them is white.
Society just doesn't support those numbers, and from experience I can tell you that a big portion of these people were hired for their genetics and not for their ability.
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Right now I am stuck by dam-ned migraines in the world of little-to-no expansion. Who needs a parttime [according to Monster] "Web Graphic Designer" when they can pay people who are trained to handle far more complex tasks to handle idiot proofing cross-platform design and section508 issues, or get some college design intern to do it for free. I am stuck against the wall of my migraines now -- the visual aura (24/7) often causes something akin to dislexia, and BOTH the migraines and the migraine prophylactic meds have been interfering with my new matter retention, so trying to broaden myself into real programming has been very slow at best. I am so obsolete, it has gone all the way to very unamusing and come full circle back to downright hilarious in a valium sort of way :-)
I wish you all the luck in the world with the employment hunt; wish me luck with finding the door in my migraine wall :-)
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