[ErnBatavia]

You know what? I'm turning 55 later this month; house in the Los Angeles area is for sale....have given notice at my job (good paying one, too), and will be moving to our second home in the Palm Springs area......I haven't lost a minutes sleep about getting a job out there (and yes, I WILL need one); I'm gonna go around and play the "experience card" - and I guarantee you I will not be a Walmart Blue Vester. I'll get myself a nice brain-dead job, 8-to-5 (no weekends or overtime, of course) and enjoy the next 20 years.

It's all confidence....and maybe just a bit of 'networking'......use what ya got, and go in with confidence.

I'll report in!!

[bandlength]

experience card? there is no such thing anymore. it's all about the piece of paper you have. good luck! sad to be such a downer, but you're gonna need it

[gcruse]

Best of luck. Do let us know.

[Drumbo]

Unemployed Freepers?

I rushed to open this topic; I thought maybe someone wanted to hire a Freeper, lol.

I'm a "me too". I was a professional musician for over 25 years, but I was getting too old to rock'n'roll and I turned to computers in the early 90's. I was a computer hardware techinian with half a dozen certifications and I ended up as an independent contractor with my own company until 2000 when the bottom fell out and the contracts disappeared along with the companies negotiating them. I helped build the Internet - a router at a time, but the Internet is built now and computer techs are delivering pizzas.

Recently I've been working a couple of days a week doing admin. or reception or whatever the temp agencies can dig up and the rest of the time I look for a new "career". When there's no admin. I do "whatever" they have, so far: housekeeping at a ski resort, unloading trucks and a box packer at the end of a conveyor belt at a litho plant (and I have delivered pizzas). No one wants to hire an "overqualified" 47 year-old that ran his own business for half a decade. I've been asked to "dumb-down" my resume repeatedly.

Maybe we shouldn't have done such a good job fixing Y2k, we could have let it all crash and burn, and then we would have had job security rebuilding it all.

Good luck Kalashnikov_68, Da_Shrimp, bandlength, Jaidyn, RonPaulLives, Alabama_Wild_Man, SERE_DOC, blueriver, southern rock, Dinsdale, Young Werther and anyone I missed or who hasn't arrived yet. Never Give Up!