The Laid-off Techie

LazyBoy writes: "ZDNet News has this article entitled "The world of the laid-off techie". Yikes! Things have been bad in New Jersey for a while (telecom slump). How are they elsewhere?"

Comments

Burning cash

[jhol]

But after eight months without a job, the 37-year-old Raleigh, N.C., resident had burned through his 401(k) savings and was nearing the end of unemployment insurance.

How did that happen? $401k in 8 months? Am I missing something here?

Maybe he should try relocating to find a proper job.

( Bad for me anyway! ) Re:Bad in Texas as well

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes - graduated 2 months ago (BS in comp. sci) with a 3.77 gpa. I have a lot of experience. (I used to own my own business.) I have applied like 20 places, and I haven't even gotten a rejection letter yet. They just don't say anything.

If I had a job, would I be reading /. at 5:00 am?

Please hire me :)

Re:Bad times for techies

[yatest5]

Nowadays, finding an IT job is *difficult* , especially as opensource techies

Try looking for jobs at companies that actually have a revenue stream ;-)!

Re:Laid off MBAs and marketing

[jejones]

[Raises hand] Here...I'm in Des Moines, out of work after 15 years of compiler maintenance, enhancement, and development.

Perversely humorous item: I went over to itmoonlighting.com, entered my vitae, and let it do its search for temporary jobs. Exactly one turned up--it was pretty obviously a college student who wanted someone to do his homework for him and was willing to pay $200 for it. (In case he or she is reading this--write your own RPN calculator for polynomials, OK?)

Picky Wimps

[Morgahastu]

All the people interviewed in that article are wimps. They clearly say they are looking for jobs similar to what they had before. Tough luck chumps, go look somewhere else. They think that because they are taking commitment-less jobs while they look for another "fall-back-into-a-shitload-of-money-job" we should feel sorry for them? Get up and tough it out and look for a different type of job. I can't imagine someone with a MBA is limited to dot coms.

I can't believe it!!

[SamBeckett]

Why, oh, why, don't all of you out of work open source hippies try to sell your software!!!

Re:Laid off MBAs and marketing

[Anonymous Coward]

out of work ?

no

making less money coding c/c++ then I would if I was pumping gas?

yes

envious of the local tech's that got laid off allready?

yes

why?

They got the first dibs on the jobs at the local gas stations and quicky marts.

my pay has been going down rapidly in the past year while my work load, and amount of crap I
have to put up with has increased.

Re:Job hunting is a full-time job

[Sivar]

Wyould your last name be Shifman? ;-)