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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4646698" data-attributes="member: 35909">Figured it was time for an update.For the Census job, no word yet, but I passed their little test with flying colors, so I expect to have a temporary job come spring.Psion's office called me last night, thanks to him for his help.  Job position was for network engineering, so it's unlikely I will even have an interview for it (very much a field I know little about), though as Psion said, they have a lot of DSP work there, so maybe there's a chance if they thought I had potential to move to a different position later.Last month's IEEE meeting for my area was listed for the wrong day so I missed it, the next monthly meeting is this Tuesday, so I will be going and hoping to make some new friends.I just started at the bookstore again a week and a half ago, but only for the start of the semester, as I'm a temp, and only state employees and students can stick around for long.  I'll be done either tomorrow or after next week (boss is making schedule tonight).  I talked to him after work today, though, at first just curious to see if anyone had called him asking about me.  I didn't realize references weren't utilized until after an interview goes well generally, so...that explains why he had gotten nothing.  We ended up talking about various things, and apparently the state hires out a temp firm for engineering work, he emailed a coworker who knows more about that to tell me about it tomorrow.On a final note...the number of scam job offers is starting to worry me.  There's been a few, but one particular company just contacted me a second time.  It's called "Aveeva, Inc."  They emailed me back in November about an offer for training and eventually job placement.  But the training required me to pay up front for it, to be reimbursed after I'm placed for a job.  That made me hesitant, but the guy who I spoke to on the phone made it sound reasonable enough: the training is really expensive, and the payment required is a tiny fraction of it, meant to discourage people from leaving early (and thus wasting their money).  I still felt uneasy, but that actually sounded maybe fair.  The part that made me hit the brakes was that he wanted me to fly out to California and start in less than a week!  I don't make those kinds of decisions on the spot and rushed like that, and it made me fear it was a scam all the more.  I was on the phone though, I had to say something, so I said it was too soon.  I told him to let me think about it more and contact me when the next batch of job openings came up.  Well...apparently that's now.So I did a websearch on them this time, and it appears they are indeed, a scam.  Even if not, the living and working conditions sound horrible.  Going mostly from this website: <a href="http://www.desicrunch.com/DisplayReviews.aspx?Company=Aveeva_Inc&page=3" target="_blank">Aveeva Inc</a>Note if you wish to go through the pages that the reviews are either total praise or total condemnation, nearly no in-between.  That says to me that they're writing the positive reviews themselves, leading to the disparate comments.  Or...some guy REALLY hates them and has nothing better to do with his time, but that seems far less likely.</blockquote>

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