.. that everyone is forgetting -why- MS is so adamant on including Media Player with every install. MS is touting its DRM facilities to RIAA, MPAA and everyone else who wants to lockdown the world. If MS can't ensure their media player as the default player on the desktop then how can they sell expensive DRM guarantees? Ah duh..
I think you are not looking in the right places. Try networking for finding a job.
I was canned from a dotcom on the first wave of it's imploding, found a job as a government contractor thru a friend, and boy am I a happy camper! When I worked for the dotcom, I worked 70+ hr weeks and was treated more like an assembly line worker in a cannery rather than the senior developer I am. I had no life, I lived on junk food and stress, dealt with managers who did F-all and were only looking for coverage.
--Basically it sucked.--
I now work a 40 hr week with the occasional 12 hr days on deliveries. My military client is a darling and ever so grateful for the quality of sites and applications I am delivering to them. I have time to experiment with new technologies, time to re-code if I want elegance. I took a 20% salary hit to take this job but its been really worth it.
I have time to ski, mountain bike, and kayak with my honey.
--Life is good.--
Meanwhile all of my buds who disdained working for the gov are running rapidly thru their savings and unemployment benefits and are still jobless.
BTW... I was hired within 2 months. I am a female in my early 40's and lived in Greece for 15 yrs before returning to the US and I -still- got my clearance. The jobs are there, you just have to go get them.
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I think you are not looking in the right places. Try networking for finding a job.
I was canned from a dotcom on the first wave of it's imploding, found a job as a government contractor thru a friend, and boy am I a happy camper!
When I worked for the dotcom, I worked 70+ hr weeks and was treated more like an assembly line worker in a cannery rather than the senior developer I am. I had no life, I lived on junk food and stress, dealt with managers who did F-all and were only looking for coverage.
--Basically it sucked.--
I now work a 40 hr week with the occasional 12 hr days on deliveries. My military client is a darling and ever so grateful for the quality of sites and applications I am delivering to them. I have time to experiment with new technologies, time to re-code if I want elegance. I took a 20% salary hit to take this job but its been really worth it.
I have time to ski, mountain bike, and kayak with my honey.
--Life is good.--
Meanwhile all of my buds who disdained working for the gov are running rapidly thru their savings and unemployment benefits and are still jobless.
BTW ... I was hired within 2 months. I am a female in my early 40's and lived in Greece for 15 yrs before returning to the US and I -still- got my clearance. The jobs are there, you just have to go get them.