I had job interviews with 60 different companies. I didn't interview 60 times for the same position. Most positions had a telephone screening prior to the actual interview.
You're not logging into each individual server and firing off Windows Update every Patch Tuesday. In fact if you're wasting your time doing crap like that I would argue you're not a very good system administrator, because you're not learning and growing, you're simply caring and feeding.
As a security remediation specialist, my job is to remote into individual systems to figure out why Windows/McAfee/Java/Whatever(tm) isn't updating properly and fix it. A typical weekly spreadsheet has 800 systems, some systems have multiple vulnerabilities. My access level is a notch above help desk and a notch below system admin.
So what you're saying is that you were the "21st best" guy (at best) or "140th best guy" out of the entire pool of applicants for all 20 jobs you applied for in 2009/2010.
I didn't apply for 20 jobs, I interviewed for 20 jobs. The economy tanked in 2009/10 despite the Great Recession being officially over. Seven applicants per job opening makes for a very difficult market. It didn't help that hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs and recruiters told me I was unemployable for anything else.
And you were the "61st best" guy (at best) or "180th best" guy (at worst) out of the entire pool of applicants for all 60 jobs you applied for in 2013/2014.
I didn't apply for 60 jobs, I interviewed for 60 jobs. On the day I accepted my current job, I turned down two other job offers that paid significantly less and no benefits.
Point stands: you're terrible at what you do if you can't get a nibble from any of those employers.
Although I'm not actively looking for a job, I still get 20 emails and/or phone calls per day from recruiters and hiring managers. Now that I'm employed, I'm a hotter prospect.
Or I guess you could just live irresponsibly and keep filing bankruptcy ever 7-10 years, and spend the rest of your life on the verge of being evicted.
I've lived in my studio apartment for last nine years, never been late with rent and never at risk of being evicted. I got a new job, saw that the paycheck cycles wouldn't sync with my bills for several months, and, despite having a recent bankruptcy, got a bank loan to cover the bills.
Again: find a job you're better at, or learn to live much more reasonably within your means.
I ran into an old coworker while interviewing for a job. He's still doing the same job and making the same money that I was making nine years ago when I worked with him. Since Fortune 500 companies have an annoying habit of laying me off every so often, I worked all over Silicon Valley and make 80% more more money than him as contractor.
Unless you operate a business where a specific law changed that outlawed your business in some way, then you aren't going to lose your job.
The CEO of the Fortune 500 company I worked for last year timed the layoffs to coincide with the Republican government shutdown. "Opps, there goes the economy and we need to lay off 10% of the workforce!" The board also gave him a 66% raise for having a lousy fiscal year.
I'm sorry, but you really must be *terrible* at what you do if it took you that many interviews to get a job.
I guess you never experienced a competitive job market. There were seven applicants for every job in 2009/10, and three applicants for every job opening in 2013/14. A normal economy would have slightly less than two applicants for every job opening. The post-Great Recession economy is anything but normal.
Might I suggest that you stick with something more your speed, like landscaping or fast-food fry cook?
As an experienced computer technician, I make $25+ per hour with benefits. Please explain the logic of taking a minimum wage job without benefits?
Also, you should try being a little more responsible with your finances. You should have at least 6 months (preferably more) in "current, no-change-in-lifestyle" living expenses socked away in the bank for just such an eventuality. It appears that you didn't learn anything after being forced into bankruptcy, though.
My credit union gave me a $2,500 @ 9% loan to bridge the gap between running out of savings and the first paycheck of my new job. I'll be debt free by next summer. My net worth might even return to where it was before the Great Recession.
As a moderate conservative, I'm placing the blame on the House Republicans in general and the Tea Party in particular. They don't know how to govern the country. Since Obama took a page from the Clinton playbook and coopted the Republcian agenda, they no longer have an agenda to govern on.
If you don't like my sources, provide your own. But something current this time. We're talking about the 2013-2014 budget. You originally provided a link for the 2012-13 budget and went off on the employer mandate.
The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014, which was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013.[12] The Senate stripped the bill of the measures related to the Affordable Care Act, and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013.[12] The House reinstated the Senate-removed measures, and passed it again in the early morning hours on September 29.[12] The Senate declined to pass the bill with measures to delay the Affordable Care Act, and the two legislative houses did not develop a compromise bill by the end of September 30, 2013, causing the federal government to shut down due to a lack of appropriated funds at the start of the new 2014 federal fiscal year. Also, on October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect.[13] The health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act launched as scheduled on October 1.[14] Much of the Affordable Care Act is funded by previously authorized and mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending, and the presence or lack of a continuing resolution did not affect it. Some of the law's funds also come from multiple-year and "no-year" discretionary funds that are not affected by a lack of a continuing resolution.[15] Late in the evening of October 16, 2013, Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, and the President signed it shortly after midnight on October 17, ending the government shutdown and suspending the debt limit until February 7, 2014.[16]
No where in the Wikipedia article does it mentioned the employer mandate. The pissing match was over the House Republicans' attempt to gut the ACA.The employer mandate is just a fig leaf to cover up that the House Republicans failed to achieve anything in the shutdown.
My current job is 40 hours per week (I can't work OT), has paid holidays and time off (no sick time), and full benefits (I'm skipping health care to pay down debt). The only downside that I'm getting paid $1.01 less than my last job. For the 60 job interviews I had in Silicon Valley, most companies offered health care as a hiring perk.
You do realize that the lawsuit will get tossed out of court for lack of legal standing? Congress creates the laws, the executive branch implements the law. The lawsuit was a bone tossed to the Tea Party folks to keep them happy because the House Republicans can't impeach President Obama.
Last time I was subjected to a new round of their peace and prosperity, I had to look for a new job.
I was out of work for two years (2009-10), had 20 job interviews, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy before getting a new job. I was out of work for eight months (2013-14), had 60 job interviews, and took out a bank loan to pay rent before getting a new job. As a moderate conservative, I remembered when Republicans once stood for responsible government.
I had 60 job interviews during those eight months (October 2013 - June 2014), which was way better than the 20 interviews had when I got laid off for two years (2009-10).
but yes, lets blame the republicans in congress for harry reid not bringing votes to the floor in the senate....
Why don't we discuss the same set of facts? The 2013 government shutdown was about the 2013-14 budget. Your link cited the 2012-13 budget -- and the tired compliant that the Senate haven't passed a budget in three years. The Senate called the House Republican's buff by passing a budget in early 2013. Unable to complain that the Senate was doing nothing, the House Republicans refused to send negotiators to House-Senate conference committee for six months, and thought they could get a better deal by shutting down the government. As a moderate conservative, I remembered when the Republican Party once stood for responsible government.
"Well, it's the top of my list, but remember who's in the White House for two more years. Obviously, he's not going to sign a full repeal," McConnell said. "It would take 60 votes in the Senate. Nobody thinks we're going to have 60 Republicans. And it would take a president -- presidential signature. No one thinks we're going to get that."
The 2013 shutdown came about because the House Republicans refused to do their job by producing a budget, sending negotiators to the joint House-Senate conference, and voting for the COMPROMISED budget. After a 16-day government shutdown and $20B in damages to the economy, the House Republicans accepted a budget deal that they would have gotten anyway if they done their job in the first place. If the Republicans shut down the government in the next two years, I fully expect President Hillary to take them to the woodshed.
I'm waiting for the Republicans to scream bloody murder when they can't get anything done in the Senate because they don't have 60 votes to override a Democratic filibuster or 67 votes to override a presidential veto.
I hope the Republicans will skip shutting down the government this year. I was out of work for eights months after they shut down the government last year for nothing. I'm still trying to recover from the Great Recession after being out of work three of the last six years and filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. These hissy-fits in Washington don't help anyone.
I have analog clocks in three strategic locations in my studio apartment: bathroom, kitchen and office. I can look up and see the time from anywhere in my apartment. When DST was roughly six months, I switched out the AA batteries before changing the time. Alas, Congress changed DST to eight months. Some clocks drift more so than others between battery changes. PITA!
Actually, no one told me that I needed a high school diploma. I was misdiagnosed as mentally retarded, so I was expected to be an idiot for the rest of my life. I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school, got my A.A. degree in general education in 1994, and got my A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007, where I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. If the public schools taught me anything, it's not to listen to idiots calling me an idiot.
Each shuttle flight was a million parts riding Roman candle into space. I think one early study published prior to the Challenger disaster predicted a catastrophic shuttle lost as being one in 25. NASA had a good run with two disasters in 135 shuttle flights.
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I had job interviews with 60 different companies. I didn't interview 60 times for the same position. Most positions had a telephone screening prior to the actual interview.
You're not logging into each individual server and firing off Windows Update every Patch Tuesday. In fact if you're wasting your time doing crap like that I would argue you're not a very good system administrator, because you're not learning and growing, you're simply caring and feeding.
As a security remediation specialist, my job is to remote into individual systems to figure out why Windows/McAfee/Java/Whatever(tm) isn't updating properly and fix it. A typical weekly spreadsheet has 800 systems, some systems have multiple vulnerabilities. My access level is a notch above help desk and a notch below system admin.
So what you're saying is that you were the "21st best" guy (at best) or "140th best guy" out of the entire pool of applicants for all 20 jobs you applied for in 2009/2010.
I didn't apply for 20 jobs, I interviewed for 20 jobs. The economy tanked in 2009/10 despite the Great Recession being officially over. Seven applicants per job opening makes for a very difficult market. It didn't help that hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs and recruiters told me I was unemployable for anything else.
And you were the "61st best" guy (at best) or "180th best" guy (at worst) out of the entire pool of applicants for all 60 jobs you applied for in 2013/2014.
I didn't apply for 60 jobs, I interviewed for 60 jobs. On the day I accepted my current job, I turned down two other job offers that paid significantly less and no benefits.
Point stands: you're terrible at what you do if you can't get a nibble from any of those employers.
Although I'm not actively looking for a job, I still get 20 emails and/or phone calls per day from recruiters and hiring managers. Now that I'm employed, I'm a hotter prospect.
Or I guess you could just live irresponsibly and keep filing bankruptcy ever 7-10 years, and spend the rest of your life on the verge of being evicted.
I've lived in my studio apartment for last nine years, never been late with rent and never at risk of being evicted. I got a new job, saw that the paycheck cycles wouldn't sync with my bills for several months, and, despite having a recent bankruptcy, got a bank loan to cover the bills.
Again: find a job you're better at, or learn to live much more reasonably within your means.
I ran into an old coworker while interviewing for a job. He's still doing the same job and making the same money that I was making nine years ago when I worked with him. Since Fortune 500 companies have an annoying habit of laying me off every so often, I worked all over Silicon Valley and make 80% more more money than him as contractor.
Unless you operate a business where a specific law changed that outlawed your business in some way, then you aren't going to lose your job.
The CEO of the Fortune 500 company I worked for last year timed the layoffs to coincide with the Republican government shutdown. "Opps, there goes the economy and we need to lay off 10% of the workforce!" The board also gave him a 66% raise for having a lousy fiscal year.
I'm sorry, but you really must be *terrible* at what you do if it took you that many interviews to get a job.
I guess you never experienced a competitive job market. There were seven applicants for every job in 2009/10, and three applicants for every job opening in 2013/14. A normal economy would have slightly less than two applicants for every job opening. The post-Great Recession economy is anything but normal.
Might I suggest that you stick with something more your speed, like landscaping or fast-food fry cook?
As an experienced computer technician, I make $25+ per hour with benefits. Please explain the logic of taking a minimum wage job without benefits?
Also, you should try being a little more responsible with your finances. You should have at least 6 months (preferably more) in "current, no-change-in-lifestyle" living expenses socked away in the bank for just such an eventuality. It appears that you didn't learn anything after being forced into bankruptcy, though.
My credit union gave me a $2,500 @ 9% loan to bridge the gap between running out of savings and the first paycheck of my new job. I'll be debt free by next summer. My net worth might even return to where it was before the Great Recession.
As a moderate conservative, I'm placing the blame on the House Republicans in general and the Tea Party in particular. They don't know how to govern the country. Since Obama took a page from the Clinton playbook and coopted the Republcian agenda, they no longer have an agenda to govern on.
If you don't like my sources, provide your own. But something current this time. We're talking about the 2013-2014 budget. You originally provided a link for the 2012-13 budget and went off on the employer mandate.
The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014, which was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013.[12] The Senate stripped the bill of the measures related to the Affordable Care Act, and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013.[12] The House reinstated the Senate-removed measures, and passed it again in the early morning hours on September 29.[12] The Senate declined to pass the bill with measures to delay the Affordable Care Act, and the two legislative houses did not develop a compromise bill by the end of September 30, 2013, causing the federal government to shut down due to a lack of appropriated funds at the start of the new 2014 federal fiscal year. Also, on October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect.[13] The health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act launched as scheduled on October 1.[14] Much of the Affordable Care Act is funded by previously authorized and mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending, and the presence or lack of a continuing resolution did not affect it. Some of the law's funds also come from multiple-year and "no-year" discretionary funds that are not affected by a lack of a continuing resolution.[15] Late in the evening of October 16, 2013, Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, and the President signed it shortly after midnight on October 17, ending the government shutdown and suspending the debt limit until February 7, 2014.[16]
No where in the Wikipedia article does it mentioned the employer mandate. The pissing match was over the House Republicans' attempt to gut the ACA.The employer mandate is just a fig leaf to cover up that the House Republicans failed to achieve anything in the shutdown.
My current job is 40 hours per week (I can't work OT), has paid holidays and time off (no sick time), and full benefits (I'm skipping health care to pay down debt). The only downside that I'm getting paid $1.01 less than my last job. For the 60 job interviews I had in Silicon Valley, most companies offered health care as a hiring perk.
You do realize that the lawsuit will get tossed out of court for lack of legal standing? Congress creates the laws, the executive branch implements the law. The lawsuit was a bone tossed to the Tea Party folks to keep them happy because the House Republicans can't impeach President Obama.
Last time I was subjected to a new round of their peace and prosperity, I had to look for a new job.
I was out of work for two years (2009-10), had 20 job interviews, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy before getting a new job. I was out of work for eight months (2013-14), had 60 job interviews, and took out a bank loan to pay rent before getting a new job. As a moderate conservative, I remembered when Republicans once stood for responsible government.
if you want to be technical about the shutdown, it had to do with the individual mandate.
The same individual mandate that the House Republicans are suing President Obama for not implementing? They still haven't filed the lawsuit.
I had 60 job interviews during those eight months (October 2013 - June 2014), which was way better than the 20 interviews had when I got laid off for two years (2009-10).
Actually, 12 time zones. IIRC, all 12 time zones are set to Moscow time.
but yes, lets blame the republicans in congress for harry reid not bringing votes to the floor in the senate....
Why don't we discuss the same set of facts? The 2013 government shutdown was about the 2013-14 budget. Your link cited the 2012-13 budget -- and the tired compliant that the Senate haven't passed a budget in three years. The Senate called the House Republican's buff by passing a budget in early 2013. Unable to complain that the Senate was doing nothing, the House Republicans refused to send negotiators to House-Senate conference committee for six months, and thought they could get a better deal by shutting down the government. As a moderate conservative, I remembered when the Republican Party once stood for responsible government.
"Well, it's the top of my list, but remember who's in the White House for two more years. Obviously, he's not going to sign a full repeal," McConnell said. "It would take 60 votes in the Senate. Nobody thinks we're going to have 60 Republicans. And it would take a president -- presidential signature. No one thinks we're going to get that."
The odds of more shutdowns in 2015-16 are high.
The 2013 shutdown came about because the House Republicans refused to do their job by producing a budget, sending negotiators to the joint House-Senate conference, and voting for the COMPROMISED budget. After a 16-day government shutdown and $20B in damages to the economy, the House Republicans accepted a budget deal that they would have gotten anyway if they done their job in the first place. If the Republicans shut down the government in the next two years, I fully expect President Hillary to take them to the woodshed.
I'm waiting for the Republicans to scream bloody murder when they can't get anything done in the Senate because they don't have 60 votes to override a Democratic filibuster or 67 votes to override a presidential veto.
Sorry, Comrade. This is Amerika. We're not on Moscow time.
I hope the Republicans will skip shutting down the government this year. I was out of work for eights months after they shut down the government last year for nothing. I'm still trying to recover from the Great Recession after being out of work three of the last six years and filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. These hissy-fits in Washington don't help anyone.
I have analog clocks in three strategic locations in my studio apartment: bathroom, kitchen and office. I can look up and see the time from anywhere in my apartment. When DST was roughly six months, I switched out the AA batteries before changing the time. Alas, Congress changed DST to eight months. Some clocks drift more so than others between battery changes. PITA!
Actually, no one told me that I needed a high school diploma. I was misdiagnosed as mentally retarded, so I was expected to be an idiot for the rest of my life. I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school, got my A.A. degree in general education in 1994, and got my A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007, where I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. If the public schools taught me anything, it's not to listen to idiots calling me an idiot.
That's the kicker. My roommate never got into the auto industry. He's still working in warehouses and still paying off his $25,000 school loans.
I noted you completely ignored my answer.
Each shuttle flight was a million parts riding Roman candle into space. I think one early study published prior to the Challenger disaster predicted a catastrophic shuttle lost as being one in 25. NASA had a good run with two disasters in 135 shuttle flights.