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The Laid-off Techie

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 10, 2002 @10:46PM from the marine-corps-is-always-hiring dept.

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?"

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Re:Laid off MBAs and marketing by jejones · 2002-02-10 23:44 · Score: 5, Funny

[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?)