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To: #3Fan
You did a lot of talking but I see no numbers showing...

Do your own research. I know well the conditions of my trade and the numbers of available jobs now as compared to merely two years ago.

On "monster.com", there were 6,000 to 8,000 jobs posted at any time in my field. There are precicely 130 nationwide today. This is the same story from all sources. There are very few "head hunter" firms in business these days.

Could you tell me what I'd have to gain by making this shit up?

72 posted on 03/10/2004 8:46:51 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK; #3Fan
The job market for many technical people is in the crapper these days. This directly effects the white collar middle class, a key segment of the Republican base.
75 posted on 03/10/2004 8:51:40 AM PST by TXBSAFH (KILL-9 needs no justification.)
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To: GingisK
Do your own research. I know well the conditions of my trade and the numbers of available jobs now as compared to merely two years ago.

That's anecdotal, doesn't prove much.

On "monster.com", there were 6,000 to 8,000 jobs posted at any time in my field. There are precicely 130 nationwide today. This is the same story from all sources. There are very few "head hunter" firms in business these days.

Is that an accurate way to measure jobs, by a website that was one of those bubble sites? I rather see statistics with a good representative sample-size.

Could you tell me what I'd have to gain by making this shit up?

I didn't say you were making anything up, I just haven't seen anything from you that shows any nationwide hard facts or significant statistics. I've seen some anecdotal evidence from you, but that doesn't tell me much about what the percentages of legitimate engineering jobs leaving the country are.

77 posted on 03/10/2004 8:53:59 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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