[ale] Has the IT market bottomed out?

[Mark E. Schill]

Yeah,

I was planning on looking for a house in May, but that of course has been 
put on hold indefinitely. The other thing that drives me crazy is that lack 
of work. I am incredibly bored since I lost my job and I can't spend money 
on doing anything.

Mark


At 09:44 AM 1/29/2002 -0500, jeff hubbs wrote:
>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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