Here's where, exactly:
Amendment IX
The enumeration of the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to endy or disparage others retained by the people.
Ask most Americans if they "retain a right of privacy." I think you find they expect to, and therefore, it exists.
After deciding my old standby Monster.com was a "dry hole," and switching my efforts to find a Java consulting position in Manhattan over to Dice, I got rewarded by a bombardment of phone calls from recruiters at about the same rate as when the Nasdaq was at 5000.
About a week later, I was sitting in my first interview, up by Penn Station, and was greeted with the usual "fill out this four-page quiz" introduction. At least it wasn't all irrelevant Applet/Swing questions like most of those quizzes, and had a few relevant Servlet/EJB ones.
I quickly plowed through it, leaving one question blank that involved constructing an outer join sQL statement. Ok, I stick with zen-simple SQL in my code.
At the face-to-face part, the interviewer picked up on this flaw and tried to dig into me to, like they do, to find out if I was lying about my skill background (I'd just volutarily left my full-time position in e-commerce at an investment bank).
Since I promised myself I'd never sit through this kind of petty interrogation before, I immediately turned the interview around and spent the next 45 minutes grilling _him_ about his project, e.g., what platforms they use, if they were using load balancing, what the current trafffic is, why they chose the vendors they did, etc. He was the one who got embarassed when he couldn't answer many of my questions.
By the end of the interview, he was talking to me as if I'd already gotten the job. As I left, he sighed and put my resume on top of a stack of others (_that_ didn't happen last year) and confessed that it was refreshing to talk to someone who wasn't a complete phony,and that 80% of the resumes made the person look like "a rocket scientist" but that they didn't know up from down in tech.
When I left, I knew I'd never see him again. It's not that they won't offer me the contract position (_only_ sixty bucks an hour! I suspect the contract agency will still charge them the same high rate as last year, but is pocketing the difference) but that I will turn it down if they do: they want me to develop EJB/Servlet applications (which I do) but also to perform data entry on the Excel spread sheets for much of the time.
I think I'll keep looking. My voice mail had five messages while I was in that interview. Most don't pan out, but of course, you only need one.
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Here's where, exactly:
Amendment IX
The enumeration of the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to endy or disparage others retained by the people.
Ask most Americans if they "retain a right of privacy." I think you find they expect to, and therefore, it exists.
After deciding my old standby Monster.com was a "dry hole," and switching my efforts to find a Java consulting position in Manhattan over to Dice, I got rewarded by a bombardment of phone calls from recruiters at about the same rate as when the Nasdaq was at 5000. About a week later, I was sitting in my first interview, up by Penn Station, and was greeted with the usual "fill out this four-page quiz" introduction. At least it wasn't all irrelevant Applet/Swing questions like most of those quizzes, and had a few relevant Servlet/EJB ones. I quickly plowed through it, leaving one question blank that involved constructing an outer join sQL statement. Ok, I stick with zen-simple SQL in my code. At the face-to-face part, the interviewer picked up on this flaw and tried to dig into me to, like they do, to find out if I was lying about my skill background (I'd just volutarily left my full-time position in e-commerce at an investment bank). Since I promised myself I'd never sit through this kind of petty interrogation before, I immediately turned the interview around and spent the next 45 minutes grilling _him_ about his project, e.g., what platforms they use, if they were using load balancing, what the current trafffic is, why they chose the vendors they did, etc. He was the one who got embarassed when he couldn't answer many of my questions. By the end of the interview, he was talking to me as if I'd already gotten the job. As I left, he sighed and put my resume on top of a stack of others (_that_ didn't happen last year) and confessed that it was refreshing to talk to someone who wasn't a complete phony,and that 80% of the resumes made the person look like "a rocket scientist" but that they didn't know up from down in tech. When I left, I knew I'd never see him again. It's not that they won't offer me the contract position (_only_ sixty bucks an hour! I suspect the contract agency will still charge them the same high rate as last year, but is pocketing the difference) but that I will turn it down if they do: they want me to develop EJB/Servlet applications (which I do) but also to perform data entry on the Excel spread sheets for much of the time. I think I'll keep looking. My voice mail had five messages while I was in that interview. Most don't pan out, but of course, you only need one.