[ale] Job List?

[Geoffrey]

I guess you missed the drift of the message:

Colorado + no jobs < Atlanta + no jobs + family

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Let me make sure I get this right. Your considering moving BACK to
> Atlanta to look for geek work?
> 
> Bwahahahaha!!!
> 
> There isn't any! HR departments are swamped with resumes. Each job
> posting garners 3000+ applications if it hits the local papers and the
> main job boards. 
> 
> The really sad part is the huge push from the VoTech (Devry, etc)
> schools to train people in geek stuff. I have not enough business to
> support my self with my company. I get 3-8 calls per week from these
> poor "graduates" looking for work. They have zilch experience and are in
> debt up to their eyeballs on the school expenses. Nobody is hiring. The
> few people who are left in a job are so overworked due to layoffs and
> "downsizing" (BLECH! I despise the new business double speak) that it is
> not uncommon for the typical workweek to be 80 hours. 
> 
> Move to Atlanta and look for work. 
> 
> It not that we wouldn't love to have another ALE'r local. Crying in the
> beer is more fun in a crowd.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:33, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>>
>>  Out here in Colorado there's a "Rocky Mountain Internet User Group"
>>mailing list that hosts a very large jobs email list.  The market here
>>in denver is bottomed out.  I know very qualified techs who have been
>>out of work for 6+ months, one guy is painting houses for a living.  As
>>it stands, we're going to use that as an excuse to move back to Ga and
>>be near my wife's Parents and thus my kid's grandparents.  
>>
>>  Is there a mailing list strictly for Ga/Atlanta/Macon area for Unix
>>geeks (Solaris, AIX, Irix, Linux)?  
>>
>>Robert
>>
>>
>>:wq!
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>>Robert L. Harris                
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>>DISCLAIMER:
>>      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>>FYI:
>> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>>
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