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What world historical whiners!

Unemployment is as low as it has been in 40 years. This is a boom, folks. There are jobs coming out of our ears, I see them everywhere, for anyone actually willing to work.

How many people tried to kill you today? Is a Mullah promising to cut off your head if you think for yourself? Shovel any body parts into plastic bags today? There are people in this world with cause for complaining, who do not complain. You aren't one of them, either score.

Turn off the TV, hibernate the computer, put the beer back in the fridge, get off your fat lazy ass and get a freakin job!

"Turn off the TV, hibernate the computer, put the beer back in the fridge, get off your fat lazy ass and get a freakin job!"

I beg to differ. It might be a boom on paper, but not in all industries, and some of the practices are downright cutthroat. After being out of work for a year I finally have a job -- and I absolutely hate it. I *was* a software developer, but now can't get a similar job to save my life. I'm now an administrator of a software project, which for developers is the secret tenth level of Hell created especially for us.

I couldn't count the number of nibbles I've had for "Java" development positions, but the second the recruiter hears that I don't have J2EE experience I never hear from them again. You see, NO ONE anymore wants people with computer science experience, no matter how many times they've applied their experience to differing languages and technologies. All the *recruiters* care about is getting their "sell" by marketing you to their client, and all their *clients* care about is a body they can drop right into the meat grinder for the crisis they've managed themselves into. Forget about being given a chance to learn something -- you either walk in the door with it or not, and if they hire you for technology x you can bet that that's all you'll work with and not be given a chance to learn anything else. No matter that the technologies change every five years -- that's only eight or nine times in a person's career -- you're either their guy or you're not, and if not, sorry, Charlie, maybe next time. There might be lots of "IT" jobs, but the truth is the software development industry today is completely pigeon-holed and when people get laid off it's impossible for them to recover. I call that unabashed, downright immoral greed on the part of IT employers and recruiters (who usually don't even know what the buzzwords mean and aren't worth spit in my book).