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To: rahbert
There are plenty of IT people unemployed due to age or undercut by immigrants/H1Bs/offshoring.

Such as myself. Job went to India, and I'm nearly 58.

I've had two interviews in 5 months, when in "normal" times I would have had a job in less than one month. Job hunting has become a form of keyword bingo, where you have to match a particular list of skillset TLA's even to be picked out of the pile.

64 posted on 10/15/2009 7:10:11 AM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: thulldud

I thought I wanted to go into computers, but all this makes me change my mind.

I want at least some job stability, not losing my job to some dude from India.


78 posted on 10/15/2009 7:41:06 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: thulldud

see post # 74


79 posted on 10/15/2009 7:41:11 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: thulldud

You are so right. I know of people who have applied for hundreds of jobs (myself included) and all of us have been lucky to get 1-2 interviews!


105 posted on 10/15/2009 8:43:00 AM PDT by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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