[ale] Has the IT market bottomed out?

[jeff hubbs]

Mark E. Schill wrote:

> I hope it is on its way back up. I have been without a job for 3 months 
> now.
> 
> Mark

Five months here.  I have given up on looking just in Atlanta.  If you 
believe the AJC classifieds, there do seem to be more listings than 
there were 3-4 months ago.  Remember when COMPUTER/IT went on for pages?

In these five months, I've had bouts with illness and I went a month and 
a half with no Internet service at the house thanks to 
DirectTV's/Bellsouth's ineptitude and/or scheming.

I'm applying to Federal jobs as well as private sector, hoping that my 
prior Federal service will give me a leg up.  It's a slow process and 
you often have to write volumes (or at least re-utilize 
previously-written volumes, which still takes a lot of time) for KSAs 
for each position.  That's what I was up doing last night until 2:45AM. 
  Many nights I'm up late enough to hear the locate -u job fire up on my 
Mandrake box...

It isn't just the financial pressure; it's this thing where you have 
absolutely no idea where you and your family will be in a month - or 
even temporarily separated.  It means that you can pretty much forget 
about "planning" much of anything.  "Downsizing one's life" is 
important, sure - and I've been doing it for years now - but even THAT 
takes time and effort.



- Jeff


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