Looking for a tech job? I got 800+ connections to recruiters from the last 20 years that I've talked, interviewed or submitted resumes to during my IT career. If I post online that I'm looking for a job, I'll immediately get 50+ responses. Sometimes LinkedIn is the only way to find jobs that aren't being listed on the job search boards.
So it's "career management" when you or the dems do it, but it's a shaking-in-their-boots fear of losing when repubs do it?
I'm a moderate conservative. I was a registered Republican until a year ago when I got tired of being called a RINO. Now I'm a registered Democrat — and no one is calling me a DINO because I'm a moderate conservative.
Career management applies to everyone. If you don't plan to succeed, than you're planning to fail. I can tell by your comment that you must be good at failing.
Trump will scream bloody murder to create enough doubts after the election to force the issue in the electoral college. It's the electoral college that determines the election, not the popular vote. If enough delegates change their vote from the official tally, Trump could be president. That outcome is extremely unlikely.
Obama was campaigning for 2008 the day after he was elected in 2004. Hillary was campaigning for 2016 the day she lost the ticket to Obama. That's what these slimeballs do, non stop.
That's career management, which would make me a slime ball too. I'm two years into a five year contract for government IT that's fully funded. While I'm working my current job, I'm thinking about my next job in three years. A decision that shouldn't be left to happenstance. Will it be another five year contract with the government? Or a private sector job that pays two, three or four times what I'm currently making as a public servant? Whatever job I have or get in three years, I'll be thinking about the next job thereafter.
Established Republicans fear Trump winning more than they fear him losing.
We should all be afraid if Trump wins the presidency.
Every election is different, and with changing times each state also becomes very different.
Except that the electoral maps for 2008, 2012 and 2016 are nearly identical. The Democrats are starting off from a position of strength, and the Republicans are starting off from a position of weakness. McCain and Romney were weak candidates, but Trump is the weakest candidate ever. He might be another Zachary Taylor who sent the Whig Party in the 1848 election into the dustbin of history.
Get a solid Republican candidate who's not crazy then it's not inconceivable that California could be a red state, but this gets discounted because every thinks it's locked up and will never swap despite us having several Republican governors in recent history.
The California Republican Party has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The national Republican Party is destined to become a regional party in the South, if it doesn't return to the mainstream of America.
The senate will be a bit difficult this season [...]
That's not correct. The Republicans have 24 Senate seats to protect this year. If the Democrats can keep their 10 seats and flip a half-dozen Republican seats, they can control the Senate with a simple majority. Since Trump has put all 24 Republican seats into play, a Democratic super-majority in the Senate is a possible outcome.
My parents did a lousy job when it came to pornography. I had to go over to a friend's house to look at his father's stack of Playboy magazines. I have fond memories of Playboy back in the 1970's.
That's already baked into the electoral college. Since Trump alienated every possible voting bloc, he needs to win Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania that Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
If Trump loses either Florida or Ohio, it's GAME OVER.
No Republican has ever won the presidency without Ohio.
The last time the Republicans won Pennsyvalnia was 1992.
Even if Trump does win all three states, Hillary could still win the presidency with a handful of battleground states.
I did a contract job as a PC disconnect/reconnect tech for a moving company in 2011. We had to move Solar City to a new location on the weekend after their company Christmas party. I came across a small table in the middle of a bullpen where it looked like someone — or maybe the entire department — raped a Christmas tree to death. Saddest thing I've seen during the holidays.
The local 7-11 store taped over the slot and have a note to swipe the card instead. The chip reader is too slow to move a long line at a faster pace. With limited parking out in front, the clerks want to turn over as many customers as fast as possible to avoid losing sales.
He wants the US to spend less time, effort, and money patrolling the world, and wants other countries to take up the slack.
That's what he says. But the rest of the world isn't going to pick up the tab for Pax Americana. Trump haven't explained how he would downsize the military by laying off troops, mothballing weapon systems and closing bases. Actions that won't be popular with politicians and voters as many government-funded jobs will go away and unemployment increase.
But go ahead and throw insults. It is, after all, the only thing Democrats do.
As a moderate conservative, I can say that Trump is an idiot.
With that many employees you would think that they could dispatch a driver to personally deliver my package to my door!
Amazon driver couldn't find my friend's apartment, delivered it to another apartment, and Amazon refused to have the driver go back to retrieve the wrongly delivered package.
If it's not there in 30 minutes it's FREE!
My friend wanted a replacement package sent immediately. Amazon gave him a refund instead.
Hey, I can dream right?
Amazon's delivery service is a joke. That's why I have post office box to send all my packages to. That doesn't prevent a postal clerk from misplacing a package for two weeks (on average).
The benefits are fantastic by any measure but the sociopaths and maladjusted high school bullies despite being out of school for decades make it a living hell.
That describes all my IT coworkers in Fortune 500 companies. The government IT workers I work with are all ex-military and very professional.
Do you really think you would be unemployed 7 months out of 12?
Prior to my current government IT job, I was out of work for eight months (2013-2014) and unemployed for two years (2009-2010). As an IT support contractor, my income varied between $25K to $50K per year for most of my career. I'm two years into a five-year contract with full pay and benefits. That's a nice break from the IT rat race.
Fresh grads are usually hired at at least 80k and well over 100k at places like FB or Google, not counting benefits.
Except I don't have a BA/BS degree. I got an AA degree in General Education (1994) and AS degree in Computer Programming (2007). I'm also 20+ years into my career.
So yeah, it shouldn't be hard to double that assuming you don't get trapped by your previous salary.
I'm studying for InfoSec certifications. My next job should double or triple my current pay rate.
Nope. It's $50K per year. Government IT doesn't pay that much. I've been trying to get a cost of living adjustment for being in Silicon Valley. No dice.
If not, I will gladly hire you today for 2x your current salary.
I doubt you can match my benefit package: paid federal holidays off, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K and healthcare package, and a fully funded contract for the next three years.
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Why do people use LinkedIn?
Looking for a tech job? I got 800+ connections to recruiters from the last 20 years that I've talked, interviewed or submitted resumes to during my IT career. If I post online that I'm looking for a job, I'll immediately get 50+ responses. Sometimes LinkedIn is the only way to find jobs that aren't being listed on the job search boards.
I got 800+ connections with recruiters. Where's my invitation to be an influencer?
So it's "career management" when you or the dems do it, but it's a shaking-in-their-boots fear of losing when repubs do it?
I'm a moderate conservative. I was a registered Republican until a year ago when I got tired of being called a RINO. Now I'm a registered Democrat — and no one is calling me a DINO because I'm a moderate conservative.
Career management applies to everyone. If you don't plan to succeed, than you're planning to fail. I can tell by your comment that you must be good at failing.
I'll need to change my password for Yahoo Mail for the first time in 20+ years?
What does he win from that?
Trump will scream bloody murder to create enough doubts after the election to force the issue in the electoral college. It's the electoral college that determines the election, not the popular vote. If enough delegates change their vote from the official tally, Trump could be president. That outcome is extremely unlikely.
Obama was campaigning for 2008 the day after he was elected in 2004. Hillary was campaigning for 2016 the day she lost the ticket to Obama. That's what these slimeballs do, non stop.
That's career management, which would make me a slime ball too. I'm two years into a five year contract for government IT that's fully funded. While I'm working my current job, I'm thinking about my next job in three years. A decision that shouldn't be left to happenstance. Will it be another five year contract with the government? Or a private sector job that pays two, three or four times what I'm currently making as a public servant? Whatever job I have or get in three years, I'll be thinking about the next job thereafter.
Established Republicans fear Trump winning more than they fear him losing.
We should all be afraid if Trump wins the presidency.
Hillary could simply perform worse.
She could — and probably still win. Which could explain why the Republican leadership is planning for a presidential comeback in 2020.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-2020-presidential-campaign-launches-in-cleveland/492206/
Every election is different, and with changing times each state also becomes very different.
Except that the electoral maps for 2008, 2012 and 2016 are nearly identical. The Democrats are starting off from a position of strength, and the Republicans are starting off from a position of weakness. McCain and Romney were weak candidates, but Trump is the weakest candidate ever. He might be another Zachary Taylor who sent the Whig Party in the 1848 election into the dustbin of history.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/history-campaign-politics-zachary-taylor-killed-whigs-political-party-213935
Get a solid Republican candidate who's not crazy then it's not inconceivable that California could be a red state, but this gets discounted because every thinks it's locked up and will never swap despite us having several Republican governors in recent history.
The California Republican Party has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The national Republican Party is destined to become a regional party in the South, if it doesn't return to the mainstream of America.
The senate will be a bit difficult this season [...]
That's not correct. The Republicans have 24 Senate seats to protect this year. If the Democrats can keep their 10 seats and flip a half-dozen Republican seats, they can control the Senate with a simple majority. Since Trump has put all 24 Republican seats into play, a Democratic super-majority in the Senate is a possible outcome.
Here's a fun factoid for you: Trump has to perform better than McCain (2008) and Romney (2012). So far... His metrics sucks.
My parents did a lousy job when it came to pornography. I had to go over to a friend's house to look at his father's stack of Playboy magazines. I have fond memories of Playboy back in the 1970's.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html
I did a contract job as a PC disconnect/reconnect tech for a moving company in 2011. We had to move Solar City to a new location on the weekend after their company Christmas party. I came across a small table in the middle of a bullpen where it looked like someone — or maybe the entire department — raped a Christmas tree to death. Saddest thing I've seen during the holidays.
The movie was filmed in the desert where atomic testing was done and many of the cast including John Wayne fought and ultimately died of cancer.
The Utah desert where the move got filmed was downwind from the Nevada test site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders#Health_effects_of_nuclear_testing
The local 7-11 store taped over the slot and have a note to swipe the card instead. The chip reader is too slow to move a long line at a faster pace. With limited parking out in front, the clerks want to turn over as many customers as fast as possible to avoid losing sales.
He wants the US to spend less time, effort, and money patrolling the world, and wants other countries to take up the slack.
That's what he says. But the rest of the world isn't going to pick up the tab for Pax Americana. Trump haven't explained how he would downsize the military by laying off troops, mothballing weapon systems and closing bases. Actions that won't be popular with politicians and voters as many government-funded jobs will go away and unemployment increase.
But go ahead and throw insults. It is, after all, the only thing Democrats do.
As a moderate conservative, I can say that Trump is an idiot.
Grammar Nazi misspelled Achilles? Ha ha ha
It's a good thing that I'm not one!
With that many employees you would think that they could dispatch a driver to personally deliver my package to my door!
Amazon driver couldn't find my friend's apartment, delivered it to another apartment, and Amazon refused to have the driver go back to retrieve the wrongly delivered package.
If it's not there in 30 minutes it's FREE!
My friend wanted a replacement package sent immediately. Amazon gave him a refund instead.
Hey, I can dream right?
Amazon's delivery service is a joke. That's why I have post office box to send all my packages to. That doesn't prevent a postal clerk from misplacing a package for two weeks (on average).
[...] must have infinitesimally precise location data [...]
No wonder the Tesla self-driving AI is getting into crashes. It's too busy figuring out the Archilles and the tortoise paradox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise
The benefits are fantastic by any measure but the sociopaths and maladjusted high school bullies despite being out of school for decades make it a living hell.
That describes all my IT coworkers in Fortune 500 companies. The government IT workers I work with are all ex-military and very professional.
Apple also funnels U.S. profits through a Nevada corporation to avoid paying taxes in California and other states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html
Do you really think you would be unemployed 7 months out of 12?
Prior to my current government IT job, I was out of work for eight months (2013-2014) and unemployed for two years (2009-2010). As an IT support contractor, my income varied between $25K to $50K per year for most of my career. I'm two years into a five-year contract with full pay and benefits. That's a nice break from the IT rat race.
Fresh grads are usually hired at at least 80k and well over 100k at places like FB or Google, not counting benefits.
Except I don't have a BA/BS degree. I got an AA degree in General Education (1994) and AS degree in Computer Programming (2007). I'm also 20+ years into my career.
So yeah, it shouldn't be hard to double that assuming you don't get trapped by your previous salary.
I'm studying for InfoSec certifications. My next job should double or triple my current pay rate.
Your career is government, not IT.
My career is in IT. My current contract is for the government.
Please tell me you meant $150K a year.
Nope. It's $50K per year. Government IT doesn't pay that much. I've been trying to get a cost of living adjustment for being in Silicon Valley. No dice.
If not, I will gladly hire you today for 2x your current salary.
I doubt you can match my benefit package: paid federal holidays off, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K and healthcare package, and a fully funded contract for the next three years.