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25 most Dangerous jobs:

1. Logging workers

Fatal injuries: 135.9 per 100,000 workers

2. Fishers and related fishing workers

Fatal injuries: 86 per 100,000 workers

4. Roofers

Fatal injuries: 48.6 per 100,000

5. Refuse and recyclable material collectors

Fatal injuries: 34.1 per 100,000 workers

6. Structural iron and steel workers

Fatal injuries: 25.1 per 100,000 workers

7. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

Fatal injuries: 24.7 per 100,000 workers

8. Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers

Fatal injuries: 23.1 per 100,000 workers

9. Construction and extraction supervisors

Fatal injuries: 18 per 100,000 workers

10. Agricultural workers

Fatal injuries: 17.4 per 100,000 workers

11. Grounds maintenance workers

Fatal injuries: 17.4 per 100,000 workers

12. Supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers

Fatal injuries: 15.7 per 100,000 workers

13. Construction laborers

Fatal injuries: 15.1 per 100,000 workers

14. Police and sheriff’s patrol officers

Fatal injuries: 14.6 per 100,000 workers

15. Electrical power-line installers and repairers

Fatal injuries: 14.6 per 100,000 workers

16. Maintenance and repair workers

Fatal injuries: 13.4 per 100,000 workers

17. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs

Fatal injuries: 13.2 per 100,000 workers

18. Landscaping supervisors

Fatal injuries: 13.2 per 100,000 workers

20. Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers

Fatal injuries: 11.7 per 100,000 workers

21. Operating engineers and construction equipment operators

Fatal injuries: 10.6 per 100,000 workers

22. Electricians

Fatal injuries: 10 per 100,000 workers

23. Industrial machinery workers

Fatal injuries: 9.3 per 100,000 workers

24. Painters

Fatal injuries: 8.6 per 100,000 workers

25. Heat, air conditioning, and refrigerator mechanics and installers

Fatal injuries: 8.4 per 100,000 workers

Monster.com enables recruiters to check a box to "include diversity candidates" to include resumes from their "Diversity and Inclusion network" in search results. They appear to have built a monetized product around this. Can somebody please explain to me how the existence of this checkbox is not discriminatory? https://hiring.monster.com/jcm...

Why would Monster (a job search website) get involved with online gambling?

So that when you fail to get a job with monster.com you can instead whittle away your government handout by gambling to try and make it rich that way instead... it all fits together.

Why would Monster (a job search website) get involved with online gambling?

or a 1 pixel x 1 pixel gif https://www.monster.com/career...

I don't know; competition very often produces much better results for a better price. If the private security contracter charges more for a lower quality product, Phoenix won't continue using them. Simple as that. And if they work better and faster than the TSA, why would Phoenix continue to use the TSA?

As for how to "get in on this boondoggle" try this

It's interesting to read that while male nurses are 6% to 10% of the total, female nurses still make less than a male nurse makes.

http://nursinglink.monster.com...

"About 6 percent of nurses in the United States are men. However, men are represented in much higher numbers in nursing specialties that also pay higher salaries. For example, 49 percent of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in the U.S. are men. In 2005, the average salary for CRNAs was $160,000, significantly higher than the average floor nurses, who are mostly women. Of course, a master’s degree is required for a nursing specialization such as CRNA, which also increases the take-home salary."

"Men seem to go for higher education in nursing than women do, increasing their take-home earnings. There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs."

https://www.advisory.com/daily...

"Why is that? The data seemed especially striking because women don't just make up the overwhelming share of staff nurses, but represent about 90% of Chief Nursing Officers, too."

"I took the question to our in-house think tank, the Nursing Executive Center. (Collectively, they have several hundred years of experience studying the nursing industry, working in it, or both.)"

"One reason, they suggested: Some may be where the nurses work."

""Anecdotally, I hear that many men enter the “high tech” nursing specialties—such as critical care," the Center's Jennifer Stewart told me. "These are often higher paid nursing specialties." "

""Men also tend to aim for higher levels of education," Katherine Virkstis pointed out. "There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs.""

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015...

"Male registered nurses (RNs) make more than $5,000 per year than their female counterparts across most settings, specialty areas and positions, according to a UCSF-led study, and this earnings gap has not improved over the last three decades."

[John]

Because the last three positions were all help desk jobs and lying on my resume would be unethical.

Of course, don't lie on your résumé, and especially don't lie on your job application.

But that doesn't mean you have to write your résumé with your help-desk experience on page one. If you're trying to change careers, use a functional résumé instead of a chronological one. Or perhaps a hybrid of the two.

"dinosaurs are dead"

Hey, dinosaurs are not dead http://jobs.monster.com/v-it-q...

it is insurance billing

Are you claiming that the VA has no way to interface with private insurers for patients with less than a 100% service connected disability?

office management, etc...

I'm not sure what you mean by "etc.", but see also VistA's financial and administrative bullet points.

I can post a job on Monster.com for someone with Medisoft experience and get multiple resumes of people who already know the program.

Likewise with keyword VistA.

If they are desperate enough to risk their lives for overtime, maybe (just maybe) they are underpaid? Telcos have the money to build out safely and fast - they have been recording record profits for years. Blaming the workers is retarded.

And don't anyone even fucking try the anti-union argument. These guys make a very average salary -- close to the US median income, (which is hard to live on depending on where you live, and very hard to raise a family on).

The median salary for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers was $53,960, according to the BLS. Telecom line installers and repairers earned a median of $51,720.

Source: http://jobs.monster.com/v-telecommunications.aspx

http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/Software-Engineer_5

1) Look at most other fields, jobs are still scarce, but not for software engineers
2) Look at the job postings and read the tech that is used, it's basically a list of open source projects
3) You want a specific example? Wordpress. http://www.indeed.com/q-Wordpress-jobs.html where they list (at the time of this writing) 7810 jobs. That's *one* open source package. How about mysql? http://www.indeed.com/q-MySQL-jobs.html 17549. Cassandra? http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Cassandra&l= 1752. Apache? http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=apache&l= 10873. Rails (*shudder*) http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=rails&l= 12734. Python? http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=python&l= 19653

Every business needs IT, every business has a website, nearly every business depends on open source for it's operation. The evidence of this requires trivial research to find it as I show above.

Having the utter lack of creativity to determine ways to make money as a software engineer outside of just selling it boggles the mind. I might suggest if that's the only way you can think of to get value out of engineering skills, perhaps you should consider a marketing career instead.

"You might also want to note that Ft. Myers, FL, where Frank is located, is not exactly famous as a hotbed of leading-edge technology"

It also, you may want to note, isn't exactly hillbilly country - Monster has 16 high-tech jobs in Ft. Myers area right now, much more if you expand your search area...

It's no Silicon Valley, but then again neither is about 99.99% of the country...

That's just an chicken and an egg problem. High prices are an indication and a consequence of shortage of supply.

Take this ad for instance. They are willing to pay around $100k to an experienced sw engineer to work in Cleveland, OH. That's around 4 times the median income in the area.

I assume there are not many US SW engineers with experience in industrial automation looking for a job in Cleveland. How much will it take for somebody to take that job? 200K? 500K? Might be more than the company can afford. You see, if they payed 500K to software engineers, they could not compete with, say, German industrial automation solutions.

So the options are following: a) outsource/relocate b) hire an H1B c) fold

Cool... call me old-fashioned, but to make things even easier, create a listing on http://monster.com/ (and similar). The best way to get an offer is to have the openings find you, rather than the other way around.

Also, lots of headhunters pull from the monster.com DB, and are more than eager to help you tailor your resume and application to help you fill a position with one of their clients.

On the downside, you'll get lots of contacts for crappy short-term contracts in crappy places all over, so use a disposable email / google voice phone number. But it's not a terrible problem to have.

Don't let the plus mod go to your head. You couldn't be more wrong. First off, he was clear that he wasn't looking for his title to be "Linux Professional". Second, I have been employed as an embedded Linux developer on more than one occasion before I started my business, which still does mostly Linux work, and these guys would also find your statement absurd. Monster doesn't support your claim either.

i don't know; there's this: http://policelink.monster.com/news/articles/131311-secrets-out-trijicon-inscribes-bible-verses-on-scopes

but that's only one piece of equipment, you say. well, yes, but imagine how well-armed someone would be once they got to the entire bible, or even just the new testament. i wonder if they'll use in-n-out burgers for rations.

(for completeness: they stopped doing it; probably made a sweet pile of cash on the modification kits to remove the verses, too. there's just no way to lose on a military contract.)

"Well, we are the most focused company that I know of, or have read of, or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose, so that we can deliver the best products in the world. In fact, the table that each of you are sitting at today, you could probably put every product on it that Apple makes, and yet Apple’s revenue last year was over $40 billion. I think the only other company that could say that is an oil company."

Microsoft is too large and unfocused to sustain innovation. They will continue to be fast followers, and still make plenty of money doing it.

I'll tell you...

It's time to jump ship and get out of IT. It's about to crash. No, I don't mean .com style. I mean industry/career-wise.

I'll explain...throughout modern history, there is a tendency to tout a career choice or field as a long-term career. The truth is, it almost always fails to be and is usually done at the peak of that career's value.

There was a time that being a butcher was an excllent local career choice. Until suddenly, no one went to the local butcher as the big grocery store became the supplier (this mainly due to the advent of the automobile which made such travel inconsequential).

In the 70's there was talk of electrical engineering being the field to be. Manufacturing of electronics. In fact, IBM let Microsoft own DOS because HARDWARE was the place to be. Then that all became automated and outsourced, suddenly you can buy an entire computer for less than the operating system. How things have changed.

The two big ones mentioned now is healthcare (in particular, nursing) and software.

Let's look at nursing as I believe it's ahead of the IT curve right now. I have been amazed by how many friends I have who are back in school pursuing nursing degrees. At least 6, and I don't have that many friends. LOL

My wife is a nurse. Let me give you some insights on that career path. Her hospital won't hire any nurse without prior experience. Is this unusual? Nope, come to find out that few are. I've met a number or recently graduated nurses. They've done their four years. Made the grade. Taken on the debt with the thought that they were entering a field in which they'd be guaranteed a job and not have to worry about unemployment. It wasn't a glamorous career, it's dirty, messy and hard work. But at least they'd always have a job, right?

Well, every nurse I've met who has graduated in the past year is still trying to find a job. That's right, they've sent out resumes to dozens of hospitals. No job. As I said, my wife's hospital will only hire you if you've got a number of years of experience. Right now there are enough nursese floating around many regions that hospitals don't want to hire and train a new nurse.

Oh and yes, there are many nurse positions in certain cities and regions. Where they hired highly-paid travel nurses.

But that's changing, and it's also largely because of seasonal clientelle numbers. They don't want to add full time permanent staff. So they bring in an expensive travel nurses to cover 2-3 months when they're more likely to have higher number of patients (summer for accidents) and (holidays for heart attacks).

http://nursinglink.monster.com/benefits/articles/193-why-cant-new-nurses-find-jobs

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-07-09-1Anurses09_ST_N.htm

I expect the IT industry to soon follow the same slope...

Having worked in various sized companies, from self-employed through 10, 20 and 500-1000 people, it became apparent to me that all businesses need:

1) Sales and Marketing
2) Accounting
3) A product

If you have no interest in 1) or 2), being self-employed is not for you. Also, when taking into account what you get paid for your "Product" as a coder, bear in mind the hours invested in Sales, Marketing, and Accounting for essentially zero compensation..

Word. When I started out doing coding-type projects, I was lucky enough to have some manager-type pimp me out and take care of the 1) and 2) for me. The only downside was that sometimes he oversold my capabilities... "X? Sure he's a pro at X -- (hey, learn X real quick!)" -- which led to some awkward moments meeting with the clients. But all-in-all it was a great "in" to that kind of work for several different sites that needed work/maintenance.

If you could toss together a pretty good buzzword-searchable public package for yourself at http://monster.com/ or the like, you'll pretty much be contacted by a string of headhunters who will try to help coach you and plug you in to a bunch of opportunities they have on their docket. Yeah, they'll take some overhead off the top, but you're probably happier not having to deal with that kind of schlepping that they do (at least not until you get older, more jaded, and more willing to look out after yourself :-P ).

You might want to look at this Quantitative Analyst position, they are looking for someone with MS in Applied Math. Living Social is also looking (but you better be familiar with Ruby on Rails).

You might want to look at this Quantitative Analyst position, they are looking for someone with MS in Applied Math. Living Social is also looking (but you better be familiar with Ruby on Rails).

IF you're in a "right to work" state, a no-compete can be rendered NULL & VOID!

Especially if it "impoverishes" you & makes it impossible to find livelyhood...

So, for example:

IF you're a (insert job here) & you signed one of those, & then you're terminated by said employer who had you sign it, but that's WHAT/ALL YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

Then, they cannot forcibly make you NOT WORK THAT JOB, period because you're in a "right-to-work" state in the USA (else, they'd either starve you, or drive you to crime etc. (who knows)).

APK

P.S.=> See here:

http://saleshq.monster.com/topics/1233-non-compete-agreements-/posts

"I live in a right to work state which would by itself make the agreement tough to enforce."

&

"IN another thread we were discussing non compete clauses. Most are not enforceable. As Luke stated and when i find the other thread I will post it in this one . Right to work states can not enforce the non compete clauses. Right to work states and the law was meant for those to have a right to work in a union.Since I believe the fair labor act of 1975 the right to work added the basic right to work"

Oddly enough, that's from a sales oriented site apparently, & what is marketing? Mostly sales...

I figure, according to law, that he's going to be ok, as long as he is in a "Right To Work" state (list of them is here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law not ALL, are though, but 22, are!)... apk

Really? I was bummed when I had to learn LabVIEW during my EE program because I felt like it was something I'd never use in the 'real world.' I mean, I still haven't ever seen a job advert asking for LabVIEW skills.

ORLY?

Here are FIFTEEN PAGES of Monster.com ads mentioning LabView.

Next?

I recently read 15 touchest interview questions and answers. Oh my god. I could never give such obvious bullshit answers. No wonder you yankees suck.

You browsed *chan at work?

Let me introduce you to your new friend.

The previous developper left because of it, and I can see a future at another company very soon.

Hello, this is your boss. You might want to start looking for that "future" now. Here's a place to get started: www.monster.com
You can pick up your final check on the way out. Have a nice day, and happy Friday!

In practice cops can pull you over whenever they feel like it. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Generally they are not interested in making up citations, since the frequency of actual violations is enough that they already wouldn't have enough time in the day to write them all.

Yes, they can... and every once in awhile they piss off the wrong person.

For anyone who's interested, Raytheon Polar Services is almost always hiring for positions at the US South Pole research facilities.

It's interesting to note that the Navy (NMCI) blocks web traffic to http://www.rayjobs.com/ but not to http://www.monster.com/ or http://www.dice.com./

Microsoft is a company that cannot "let go" of anything. Take .NET for example -- it is a miserable failure that they won't let die.

A few web sites that use .NET technology:

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe you should tell all those sites that .NET is a miserable failure? Or if you were just (successfully) karmawhoring, I am sorry to interrupt the circle jerk on here.

According to this page, $50k is closer to a starting salary for NY & LA. (I choose them since it's their papers providing TFA.) If you've been teaching since the 80s and have a master's degree, NYC teachers head towards 6 figures pretty quick.

$80k may be more than the average for the majority of districts, but you choose the right one and not only is it totally achievable, there's a pretty good overlap with the state/local governments that tend to have budget issues.

The issue with taxing amazon is quite simple - governments have no business levying taxes outside their jurisdiction. If a citizen of say, California, directs goods to be brought into the state, state law says that individual is responsible for paying use tax, not the merchant from which they purchased said goods.

The music and video shops in your example have a presence in the local jurisdiction and benefit from its services such as roads, social programs, police/fire protection and so on. Amazon doesn't.

I personally run/have run many huge enterprise apps on .NET. It's actually a pretty good platform if you know what you're doing.

Don't take my word for it, though.

When I googled for what you asked to google, I found this list of sites running ASP.NET.

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

Maybe you should tell those sites that .NET is a unproven technology? Or will you try to argue that these are not huge enterprise apps? Just because you want something to be true(or maybe you were just karma whoring) doesn't make it true. C# is a better language than Java, though each one has it's strengths. And even conceding your point(I don't) that Java is faster, speed is not everything. Or we would all be coding in assembly or machine code.

(First, I must acknowledge the authors of TFA started it off by saying it was "snarky and unscientific". Noting that...)

How could Boston make this list? It is a serious hotspot for technology. There are numerous smaller tech specific schools, as well as the MIT factor (assuming that four hundred yards across the Charles is still considered "Boston" from the article's point of view). There are numerous financial companies that are always hiring for IT, or at least hiring from other Boston based consulting firms. Then there's Big Pharma. If you consider Boston to be "within the 495 belt", you have a huge number of opportunities. If you consider Boston to JUST be Boston proper, then the traffic is a non-issue, as you should be taking public transport anyway.

The traffic...I'm not going to say it is great, but it doesn't make the Forbes 12 Worst. However, it does make number eight on Jalopnic's list in 2008. That being said, there are alternatives to driving your car to most city locations.

Regarding the sports championships that were brought up...that's just stupid. As somebody already said, they list SF because of the LACK of championships, but list Boston because there are too many. Silly. If you are into sports, you will find a very educated (although biased) fan base for every major sport (excluding NASCAR). I could go on regarding the sports situation, but I'm pretty sure anyone that cares about sports is already aware of the mark Boston has made on the sports world in the past decade.

History. Someone complained that the town felt "old". Really? The city with the first university on this continent, the first battles of the Revolutionary war, the longest continuously run restaurants in the country, the first public park in the country, some of the oldest churches in the country, the oldest surviving naval vessel in the country, the first post office, the oldest professional sports venue(Fenway) in the country, and the first underground rail system in the country? That city came across as old? We prefer to view it as historic.

Considering Boston is one of the cities in this country with the longest and most influencial histories and is also a long standing technology innovator, I would think there would be some understanding as to why there might be a level of pride.

To bring home the point, you will notice that the author of TFA gave the number of job postings available for every other city on the list, except Boston and SF. That is because Boston (I don't know about SF) is still a power house in the tech world. The author complained about traffic and his home town teams losing too many sporting events to Boston's teams. Which is about as snarky and unscientific as you can get...

(First, I must acknowledge the authors of TFA started it off by saying it was "snarky and unscientific". Noting that...)

How could Boston make this list? It is a serious hotspot for technology. There are numerous smaller tech specific schools, as well as the MIT factor (assuming that four hundred yards across the Charles is still considered "Boston" from the article's point of view). There are numerous financial companies that are always hiring for IT, or at least hiring from other Boston based consulting firms. Then there's Big Pharma. If you consider Boston to be "within the 495 belt", you have a huge number of opportunities. If you consider Boston to JUST be Boston proper, then the traffic is a non-issue, as you should be taking public transport anyway.

The traffic...I'm not going to say it is great, but it doesn't make the Forbes 12 Worst. However, it does make number eight on Jalopnic's list in 2008. That being said, there are alternatives to driving your car to most city locations.

Regarding the sports championships that were brought up...that's just stupid. As somebody already said, they list SF because of the LACK of championships, but list Boston because there are too many. Silly. If you are into sports, you will find a very educated (although biased) fan base for every major sport (excluding NASCAR). I could go on regarding the sports situation, but I'm pretty sure anyone that cares about sports is already aware of the mark Boston has made on the sports world in the past decade.

History. Someone complained that the town felt "old". Really? The city with the first university on this continent, the first battles of the Revolutionary war, the longest continuously run restaurants in the country, the first public park in the country, some of the oldest churches in the country, the oldest surviving naval vessel in the country, the first post office, the oldest professional sports venue(Fenway) in the country, and the first underground rail system in the country? That city came across as old? We prefer to view it as historic.

Considering Boston is one of the cities in this country with the longest and most influencial histories and is also a long standing technology innovator, I would think there would be some understanding as to why there might be a level of pride.

To bring home the point, you will notice that the author of TFA gave the number of job postings available for every other city on the list, except Boston and SF. That is because Boston (I don't know about SF) is still a power house in the tech world. The author complained about traffic and his home town teams losing too many sporting events to Boston's teams. Which is about as snarky and unscientific as you can get...

(First, I must acknowledge the authors of TFA started it off by saying it was "snarky and unscientific". Noting that...)

How could Boston make this list? It is a serious hotspot for technology. There are numerous smaller tech specific schools, as well as the MIT factor (assuming that four hundred yards across the Charles is still considered "Boston" from the article's point of view). There are numerous financial companies that are always hiring for IT, or at least hiring from other Boston based consulting firms. Then there's Big Pharma. If you consider Boston to be "within the 495 belt", you have a huge number of opportunities. If you consider Boston to JUST be Boston proper, then the traffic is a non-issue, as you should be taking public transport anyway.

The traffic...I'm not going to say it is great, but it doesn't make the Forbes 12 Worst. However, it does make number eight on Jalopnic's list in 2008. That being said, there are alternatives to driving your car to most city locations.

Regarding the sports championships that were brought up...that's just stupid. As somebody already said, they list SF because of the LACK of championships, but list Boston because there are too many. Silly. If you are into sports, you will find a very educated (although biased) fan base for every major sport (excluding NASCAR). I could go on regarding the sports situation, but I'm pretty sure anyone that cares about sports is already aware of the mark Boston has made on the sports world in the past decade.

History. Someone complained that the town felt "old". Really? The city with the first university on this continent, the first battles of the Revolutionary war, the longest continuously run restaurants in the country, the first public park in the country, some of the oldest churches in the country, the oldest surviving naval vessel in the country, the first post office, the oldest professional sports venue(Fenway) in the country, and the first underground rail system in the country? That city came across as old? We prefer to view it as historic.

Considering Boston is one of the cities in this country with the longest and most influencial histories and is also a long standing technology innovator, I would think there would be some understanding as to why there might be a level of pride.

To bring home the point, you will notice that the author of TFA gave the number of job postings available for every other city on the list, except Boston and SF. That is because Boston (I don't know about SF) is still a power house in the tech world. The author complained about traffic and his home town teams losing too many sporting events to Boston's teams. Which is about as snarky and unscientific as you can get...

Make sure you know what you're getting into. A Computer Science degree is a Math degree with a Computer minor. Don't take my word for it, take a look at the degree path & course descriptions. For example; http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?JobID=67547695 How many of your "Computer Science" courses will prepare you for that job? See any courses in there with "JavaScript / .NET / C#"? You're better off taking a couple of programming courses at ITT tech or any other place and you'll be ahead of all the math majors programming wise.

HP is proposing an infrastructure solution to support the mission critical US Postal Service project that will modernize the existing USPS.com environment. USPS' objectives are to create a new USPS.com portal that will enhance user experience, provide flexibility to meet market needs, simplify operations and create a venue for additional revenue generation.

Oh yeah, Wal-Mart has apparently been struggling to keep someone on for their IBM/SLES deployment. This has been going on for a year now - a month or two at a time. They're not exactly small-time, either.

I don't know, it just sucks that the difference between Redhat and SuSE is so great when it comes to the number of active installations, and how stably they appear to be supported. Maybe it's because I've tried to specialize on SLES during the past few years (having worked on another couple of large-scale SLES deployments), and I'm exposed to all these reqs, but with what amounts to German vs. North Carolinian Engineering, (no offense intended), I'm confused and saddened by the fact that there aren't more SLES/SLED deployments.

HP is proposing an infrastructure solution to support the mission critical US Postal Service project that will modernize the existing USPS.com environment. USPS' objectives are to create a new USPS.com portal that will enhance user experience, provide flexibility to meet market needs, simplify operations and create a venue for additional revenue generation.

Oh yeah, Wal-Mart has apparently been struggling to keep someone on for their IBM/SLES deployment. This has been going on for a year now - a month or two at a time. They're not exactly small-time, either.

I don't know, it just sucks that the difference between Redhat and SuSE is so great when it comes to the number of active installations, and how stably they appear to be supported. Maybe it's because I've tried to specialize on SLES during the past few years (having worked on another couple of large-scale SLES deployments), and I'm exposed to all these reqs, but with what amounts to German vs. North Carolinian Engineering, (no offense intended), I'm confused and saddened by the fact that there aren't more SLES/SLED deployments.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

Realy?? These job descriptions beg to differ.

security notice on the front page. They probably think that email about data breach would feel like phishing, so they will require password resets at next log-in across the board for everyone affected. http://help.monster.com/besafe/jobseeker/index.asp .j.

I have a politically incorrect comment to make also. On Monster's home page there's a "learn more" video that has a static title picture of the guy that's responsible for your being unemployed in the first place.

the person that stole the data emailed the users instead:

Monster.com let me steal your personal information, not once but twice, knew about it, and didn't feel like letting you know, so I thought I would instead.

Click this link to send an email to monster.com to let them know what you think about their security and their policy for handling of breaches.

- The Haxors

BONUS! If you click on the javascript form (can't link directly to it) on their main page up top right that says Help and Security, there's two interesting bullet points lower right:

- Protect yourself against online fraud
- Contact us

Those two really shouldn't be so close together on the same page?

the person that stole the data emailed the users instead:

Monster.com let me steal your personal information, not once but twice, knew about it, and didn't feel like letting you know, so I thought I would instead.

Click this link to send an email to monster.com to let them know what you think about their security and their policy for handling of breaches.

- The Haxors

BONUS! If you click on the javascript form (can't link directly to it) on their main page up top right that says Help and Security, there's two interesting bullet points lower right:

- Protect yourself against online fraud
- Contact us

Those two really shouldn't be so close together on the same page?

Depends on one's metric. In terms of potential jobs C# is about par with C++, and well below Java.

Hotjobs, title search

        Java: 577 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=Java&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

        C++: 246 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=C%2B%2B&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

        C#: 213 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=C%23&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

Monster, title search

        Java: 2016 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=java&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1

        C#: 889 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=C%23&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1

        C++: 806 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=C%2B%2B&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1

Depends on one's metric. In terms of potential jobs C# is about par with C++, and well below Java.

Hotjobs, title search

        Java: 577 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=Java&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

        C++: 246 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=C%2B%2B&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

        C#: 213 jobs
        http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?kwchanged=1&kw=C%23&search_title_only=title&ui_kw_type=kwall

Monster, title search

        Java: 2016 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=java&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1

        C#: 889 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=C%23&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1

        C++: 806 jobs
        http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=0&brd=1&jsnonreg=1&q=C%2B%2B&rad_units=miles&pg=1&vw=b&jto=1