[OT]Please read Dork Tower today.

[MaxKaladin]

gripe

The way my job-hunting has gone the last 2 years, I would probably had applied for a plant-watering position. The only problem would be that the position would undoubtedly require 2-3 years of experience watering plants for high-ranking executives. Watering plants for middle management is not good enough. Also, you'd need to somehow ferret out the hiring manager's personal phone line, otherwise your resume will be blurred/buried with the 499 other people who applied for the same job.

/gripe

I think you're understating the situation. The way MY job hunting experience has gone, you would need all of that as well as experience watering their specific kinds of plants for that long. Not only that, but it would need to be recent experience. Watering plants two or three years ago just wouldn't cut it.

Signed -- Can't get a job anywhere...

 

[coyote6]

Just a thought, but have you checked into Minnesota as a possible place of employment? I heard, a while back (ie: couple+ years) that we were a booming "IT Mecca", or some such non-sense.

Few years ago (say, 3-4), the state of Minnesota had regular ads touting IT jobs (along with good pay and much lower cost of living) on Silicon Valley radio stations. They amused me.

However, that was before the dot.com bubble burst -- which is to say, it was an Age ago.

Me, I graduated, got a job that lasted six months, and then was unemployed for better than a year ("six months" rounds down, in terms of experience ). Now I do IT-ish work for county government, at half what I made before; and I nervously watch the county & state budgets.