[Myrddin]

I'm mildly amused right now. DoD has instituted IDIQ contracting practices. Everything to the lowest bidder. The work requires security clearance and years of experience. They can't hire the cheap H1B labor. People with a clearance that will work for what they are offering don't have the skills to do the work. People who have both have been kicked to the curb as "too expensive". My amusement comes from knowing they will miss their deadlines because nobody is getting any work done. My amusement is tempered with a vastly reduced income stream and almost no work after 30+ years doing 40 to 70 hour weeks. My damn resume runs 15 pages. I have to hack it down.

[rbg81]

Concur, I would definitely shorten your resume. Understand you are proud of your accomplishments. However, I would rewrite it such that it makes it look you are only 10 years out of school (vs. 30). Age discrimination is real. I know people who have done likewise and gotten a lot more nibbles. Sad, but true. Good luck.

[glorgau]

Your resume is 15 pages?

That’s a work history, not the tailored marketing document that actually gets one noticed and hired. Sadly, nobody is going to take the time to read anything that long.

[KoRn]

Yeah, my resume in IT could easily go 7 - 10 pages after 12 years of experience, but everyone says to keep it to 3, maybe 4 pages at the most. I’d have to leave things out, and tell it to them during an interview, if I were in the hunt for a job.

I’d just assume to stay home, get EBT with all of the handouts(combined with ‘under the table’ work) if I couldn’t find anything that didn’t pay at least $55k per year.

Given how they open the door for the H1Bs, allow off-shoring of jobs, and give tens of billions to banks that should have been bankrupted with executives in prison, I’d gladly play the system without shame, if I needed to. I almost feel like a fool right now for showing up at work every day, and paying my bills....